A prophet is not without honor save in his own country

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1. Words spoken by Jesus to the people of Nazareth, the town where he grew up. They refused to believe in his teaching because they considered him one of themselves and therefore without authority to preach to them.

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The expression is now used of anyone whose talents and accomplishments are highly regarded by everyone except those at home.

Example Sentences

This request he especially appreciated, because after some effort he had failed to induce any publisher in Springfield to undertake the enterprise,* thus proving anew that "a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country."

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So universally true is that scriptural saying, like all the sayings of Him who uttered it, that a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house.

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How true it is that a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.

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Indeed, as a prophet is not without honor save in his own country and among his own kindred, it must be said that the later generation of Venetians found less difficulty in believing the tales of the three travellers than did those who first heard them.

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He never tarried long in his "native heath," and furnished conspicuous evidence that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country."

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