Luke 4:24
Luke chapter 4 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is acceptable in his own country.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is acceptable in his own country.
Context
v.23And he said unto them, Doubtless ye will say unto me this parable, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in thine own country.
v.24This passage
v.25But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Mark 6:4
And Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
- Acts 22:18
and saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem; because they will not receive of thee testimony concerning me.
- John 4:44
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.
- Acts 22:3
I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day:
- Matthew 13:57
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.