<p>4:24 <i>And he said: Truly I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own hometown</i>- We need to ask&nbsp;<i>why</i>&nbsp;this is so true. In the first century Palestinian world, a person wasn&rsquo;t defined so much by &lsquo;who they were&rsquo; as by &lsquo;whom they belonged to and where they originated from&rsquo;. Hence their problem with seeing that the Lord had access to wisdom and power which they did not have as a group. He didn&rsquo;t get that from them- and this confused them and their lack of understanding it turned to anger with Him. He had become different to them, therefore He was not of them- so they reasoned. And yet He&nbsp;<i>was</i>&nbsp;of them- the record stresses that they were His natural&nbsp;<i>patris</i>(&ldquo;country&rdquo;) and&nbsp;<i>oikos</i>&nbsp;(&ldquo;family&rdquo;). This is the same problem as Trinitarians have- they can&rsquo;t see that the Lord could have what He had, and yet be one of us, of our human nature. And perhaps that partly explains their frequently observed anger with non-Trinitarian Christians. This proverb is quoted again in Jn. 4:44 but in a different sense. The Lord is recorded as leaving Judea and going to Galilee exactly because a prophet has no honour in &ldquo;His own country&rdquo;. Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, not in Galilee. It could be that He went to Galilee from Judea because the &ldquo;country&rdquo; He had in mind here in quoting this proverb was Bethlehem, rather than Nazareth. And yet in Mt. 13:57 He uses this proverb about Nazareth. Perhaps this explains His deep amazement at His rejection now in Nazareth- see on Mt. 13:58.</p>