Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your sight, let me be given a place [of my own] in one of the cities in the country, so that I may live there; for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

He replied, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so I may preach there also; that is why I came [from the Father].”

Then the man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he could find a place; and as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.

The herdsmen [tending the pigs] ran away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came to see what had happened.

Now at this time Mary arose and hurried to the hill country, to a city of Judah (Judea),

Then He said, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown.

When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran away and told it in the city and out in the country.