Lukas 4:24

24 But he said, Omein, I say to you that no navi is welcome in his own shtetl, in his own eretz moledet (homeland).

Lukas 4:24 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 4:24

And he said, verily I say unto you
Another proverb in use among them, the meaning of which was well known to them, and was very appropriate to the present case:

no prophet is accepted in his own country;
(See Gill on Matthew 13:57)

Lukas 4:24 In-Context

22 And everyone was speaking well of him, and they were amazed at the divrei Chen coming out of his mouth and they were saying, Can this be Ben Yosef?

23 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Muz zain (no doubt) you will speak this mashal to me: Rofeh, heal yourself. Everything we heard that happened in Kfar-Nachum, do also here in your shtetl.

24 But he said, Omein, I say to you that no navi is welcome in his own shtetl, in his own eretz moledet (homeland).

25 Omein, I tell you, there were many almanot in Yisroel in the yamim of Eliyahu HaNavi, when Shomayim was shut up for shalosh shanim and shishah chodashim (three years and six months), when a great famine occurred over all the land, [MELACHIM ALEF 17:1]

26 And to not one of them was Eliyahu HaNavi sent except to Tzarfat of Tzidon to an isha, an almanah.