57And 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.
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For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 53-58)We have here Christ in his own country. He went about doing good, yet left not any place till he had finished his testimony there at that time. His own countrymen had rejected him once, yet he came to them again. Note, Christ does not take refusers at their first word, but repeats his offers to those who have often repulsed them. In this, as in other things, Christ was like his brethren; he had a…
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