Jesus himself had testified that a prophet receives no honor in his own homeland.
In context
42They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe. We have heard him for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.” 43After the two days he left there for Galilee. 44Jesus himself had testified that a prophet receives no honor in his own homeland. 45Yet when he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him: they had seen everything he did in Jerusalem during the festival, for they too had gone to the festival. 46So he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now in Capernaum there was a royal official whose son lay sick.
