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ZHED - It is true that the true prophet must not have honor in his own place, i read it in bible but i cant recall what it is
JOEL - Not quite. Here are the three scriptures that refer to this:
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. (John 4:44)
But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. (Mark 6:4)
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. (Matthew 13:57)
It's not that he "must not" have honor, but that it is expected that he "would not" have honor in his own country.
Jesus said this as He came into Nazareth because he realized that the people of Nazareth, the town in which He had been brought up, would probably not have seen him as anything other than a carpenter or son of a carpenter. People he preached to in a synagog said, "Is not this Joseph's son?" (Luke 4:22). Familiarity with Jesus and his history with them as a child got in the way of the people's ability to recognize Jesus' divinity. It was hard for them to take him seriously so that even when he performed miracles or spoke to them it was all discounted or dismissed by some. This could also happen to any latter-day prophet who might come to speak in his old childhood hometown.
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