Tag: Prophet without Honour
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Rejected at Nazareth
(Luke 4:22-30) Amongst the ministry that Jesus spread for place to place the reaction from his own home town was interesting and revealing. Jesus grew up in Nazareth and was well known to the people there. If anyone would have known him to be a good man it should have been the residents of his…
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Prophet Without Honour
(Mark 6:1-6) After a period of time Jesus came back to the country and towns where he had grown up. He taught them in the synagogues and the the people were amazed at him. But their amazement was not becuse of his message, but because they had known him from childhood and did not understand…
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A Prophet is Without Honour
(Matthew 13:53-58) There are three valuable lessons in this last section of Matthew 13, culminating with the teaching that a prophet is without honour in his own country and house. In this part we see him finish his parable teachings and returning to his own home country. Firstly though we see an insight into Jesus…
