Mark 6:4

4 et dicebat eis Iesus quia non est propheta sine honore nisi in patria sua et in cognatione sua et in domo sua

Mark 6:4 Meaning and Commentary

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.

Mark 6:4 In-Context

2 et facto sabbato coepit in synagoga docere et multi audientes admirabantur in doctrina eius dicentes unde huic haec omnia et quae est sapientia quae data est illi et virtutes tales quae per manus eius efficiuntur

3 nonne iste est faber filius Mariae frater Iacobi et Ioseph et Iudae et Simonis nonne et sorores eius hic nobiscum sunt et scandalizabantur in illo

4 et dicebat eis Iesus quia non est propheta sine honore nisi in patria sua et in cognatione sua et in domo sua

5 et non poterat ibi virtutem ullam facere nisi paucos infirmos inpositis manibus curavit

6 et mirabatur propter incredulitatem eorum