For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
For Jesus, &c. The word for expresses the reason why Jesus left Nazareth, His own city, and went into the other parts of Galilee, because the Nazarenes despised Him as their fellow-citizen, and the son of an artizan.
