Bible Verses About Prophets: Not honored in their own country

And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”

Then He added, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.