Mark 6:4
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Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.”
Read Mark 6:4 Using Other Translations
But Jesus said unto them,A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household."
Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family.”
What does Mark 6:4 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Mark 6:4
But Jesus said unto them
The following proverb;
a prophet is not without honour, but in his own country,
and among
his own kin, and in his own house;
the same as in ( Matthew
13:57 ) ; (See Gill on Matthew
13:57). Only the phrase, "among his own kin", is here
added: very probably some of those that made these reflections,
were some distant relations of Joseph, or Mary; for as Jesus was
now in his own country and city, and in his own native place, so
among his kindred and relations; who envied his gifts and
attainments, and objected to him his rise from that branch of
their family, which was the most mean and abject.
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