Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house."


"I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads. I have made your forehead harder than flint -- like diamond! Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house."

A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully on me.

How long, Lord, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, "Violence!" But you do not intervene! Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.

Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren't his sisters here with us?" And so they took offense at him. Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house."

And he added, "I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)


And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house."

And he added, "I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house."



Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and news about him spread throughout the surrounding countryside.

Now after John was imprisoned, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.

After the two days he departed from there to Galilee. (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).


And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house."

And he added, "I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house."


And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house."

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

And he added, "I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land. Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. read more.
And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."