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"Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
So pay attention! I'm going to make you just as obstinate and unyielding as they are. I'm making you harder than flint like diamond! So you are not to fear them or be intimidated by how they look at you, since they're a rebellious group."
Then the Spirit lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly with an angry attitude as the hand of the LORD rested on me.
"How long, LORD, must I cry out for help, but you won't listen? I'm crying out to you, "Violence!' but you aren't providing deliverance. Why are you forcing me to look at iniquity and to stare at wickedness? Social havoc and oppression are all around me; there are legal conflicts, and disputes abound.
This is the builder, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, isn't it? His sisters are here with us, aren't they?" And they were offended by him. Jesus had been telling them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home."
He added, "I tell all of you with certainty, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown.
Honor » Where a prophet does not have honor
He added, "I tell all of you with certainty, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown.
Jesus had been telling them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home."
Jesus Christ » History of » Teaches in galilee
From then on, Jesus began to announce, "Repent, because the kingdom from heaven is near!"
Then Jesus returned to Galilee by the power of the Spirit. Meanwhile, the news about him spread throughout the surrounding country.
Now after John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee and proclaimed the gospel about the kingdom of God.
Two days later, Jesus left for Galilee from there, since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival.
Prophecy and prophets » Where a prophet does not have honor
He added, "I tell all of you with certainty, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown.
Jesus had been telling them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home."
Prophets » Not honored in their own country
He added, "I tell all of you with certainty, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown. I'm telling you the truth there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when it didn't rain for three years and six months and there was a severe famine everywhere in the land. Yet Elijah wasn't sent to a single one of those widows except to one at Zarephath in Sidon. read more.
There were also many lepers in Israel in the prophet Elisha's time, yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."
There were also many lepers in Israel in the prophet Elisha's time, yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."