John 4:44

44 (Jesus had said before that a prophet is not respected in his own country.)

John 4:44 Meaning and Commentary

John 4:44

For Jesus himself testified
( Matthew 13:57 ) ;

that a prophet hath no honour in his own country:
all the Oriental versions read, "in his own city"; that is, Nazareth: for these words must not be understood as a reason why Christ left Judea, and went into Galilee, because he had no honour in Judea, in which was Bethlehem, the place of his nativity; but are a reason why, when he came into Galilee, he did not go to Nazareth, his own city, where he was educated, and had been brought up, and had lived the greatest part of his life, because they treated him with great disrespect and contempt; (See Gill on Matthew 13:57).

John 4:44 In-Context

42 They said to the woman, "First we believed in Jesus because of your speech, but now we believe because we heard him ourselves. We know that this man really is the Savior of the world."

43 Two days later, Jesus left and went to Galilee.

44 (Jesus had said before that a prophet is not respected in his own country.)

45 When Jesus arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him. They had seen all the things he did at the Passover Feast in Jerusalem, because they had been there, too.

46 Jesus went again to visit Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine. One of the king's important officers lived in the city of Capernaum, and his son was sick.