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NASB | John 4:44 For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 4:44 For Jesus Himself declared that a prophet has no honor in his own country. |
Bible Question: Why did Jesus say a prophet is without honor in his hometown |
Bible Answer: Greetings, The passages Doc listed will help clarify the meaning. However, I do want to add some insight from some personal experience. I was 16 when my dad finally stopped arguing with God and finally went into the ministry. He was very surprised when people told him that it was about time. His mother, my grandma, said that she knew he was going to be a preacher when he was little. She told about how he would take the Bible verses he learned in Sunday School and teach them to his friends and cousins who were close to his age at the time. The church he grew up in was called "Brown Street Baptist Church". He left the church when he went into the Army and was sent to Vietnam. Reflecting back on those years, Dad once told me that he learned a lot while at that church, and many of his beliefs were shaped by his mentors from the church. However, he later learned how a person can change, but a church can remain the same. When I was 12, my family moved back to the town Dad grew up in, and we joined that same church he grew up in. During his years of absence, he had survived Vietnam, married, started a family, and was active in his prior churches as a Sunday School teacher and Music leader. He got a rude awakening when this church that once supported him and educated him in his youth refused to utilize his experience and train him further. I had never seen my dad so distraught and upset before. There was a look of sadness in his eyes that I had only seen one other time, and that was several years later when my mom passed away. Dad, mom, and I started searching for a new church and settled on one called "Meadowbrook First Southern Baptist Church". The church we joined would be the one which would be my home during my high school years. A year after my dad surrendered into the ministry, I felt the same calling. I quickly learned the same lesson. I had gone to a bible college in St. Louis, Missouri. When I came back after being away for a year, the church that had been my home and so supportive of my calling, and helped guide my dad during his early ministry, suddenly changed. One person came right out and told me that I was nothing more that a child still, despite the fact that I was 22 at the time. I was so angry and upset. I couldn't understand why my home people would treat me this way. My dad sat down with me, opened his bible, and read me John 4:44. It was then that this verse became clear to me. I hope the lessons my Dad and I both learned the hard way helps to clarify the meaning of what Jesus was trying to say. Jalek |
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