Bible Verses About Prophets: Not honored in their own country

And they took offense at him. But Yeshua said to them, "The only place people don't respect a prophet is in his home town and in his own house."

Yes!" he said, "I tell you that no prophet is accepted in his home town.

It's true, I'm telling you -- when Eliyahu was in Isra'el, and the sky was sealed off for three-and-a-half years, so that all the Land suffered a severe famine, there were many widows;

but Eliyahu was sent to none of them, only to a widow in Tzarfat in the land of Tzidon.

Also there were many people with tzara`at in Isra'el during the time of the prophet Elisha; but not one of them was healed, only Na`aman the Syrian."

Now Yeshua himself said, “A prophet is not respected in his own country.”