Bible Verses About Prophets: Not honored in their own country

They were offended by him. But Yeshua said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

For Yeshua himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.