<p>6:4 <em>And Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honour, save in his hometown- </em>We need to ask&nbsp;<em>why</em>&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;<em>was</em>&nbsp;of them- the record stresses that they were His natural&nbsp;<em>patris</em>(&ldquo;country&rdquo;) and&nbsp;<em>oikos</em>&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><p><em>And among his own kin, and in his own family</em>- We have yet another evidence of the Lord&rsquo;s humanity, in that He talked of His own family of origin, which included His blood brothers and sisters of the previous verses. But He has just spoken of Himself as the &lsquo;householder&rsquo;, the head of the family / house (see on Mt. 13:27,52). Clearly enough, He is contrasting His spiritual family with His natural family. That group of mixed up, doubting and misunderstanding men and women who followed Him- had replaced His family of origin as His real family.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>