Luke 4:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴And he said, Verily I say unto you , No prophet is accepted in his own country.

Luke 4:24 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 13:57
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.
John 4:44
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
Mark 6:4-5
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. …
Acts 22:3
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Acts 22:18-22
And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-30)

After Christ had vanquished the evil spirit, he made it appear how much he was under the influence of the good Spirit; and, having defended himself against the devil’s assaults, he now begins to act offensively, and to make those attacks upon him, by his preaching and miracles, which he could not resist or repel. Observe, I. What is here said in general of his preaching, and the entertainment it m…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. And he said, &c.--He replies to the one proverb by another, equally familiar, which we express in a rougher form--“Too much familiarity breeds contempt.” Our Lord’s long residence in Nazareth merely as a townsman had made Him too common, incapacitating them for appreciating Him as others did who were less familiar with His everyday demeanor in private life. A most important principle, to which…