a MERE prophet has no honor in his own country → but a Messiah YES!!!

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Giuseppe
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a MERE prophet has no honor in his own country → but a Messiah YES!!!

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The original meaning of the famous proverb ("a prophet has no honor in his own country") had originally the meaning of an implicit Messianic claim.

43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there.

46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

(John 4:43-46)

Note the cause-effect:
  • ....since a mere prophet has no honor in his own country...
  • ...and since Jesus (or John?) is more than a prophet...
  • ...then: the Galileans welcomed Jesus as the MESSIAH.
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Re: a MERE prophet has no honor in his own country → but a Messiah YES!!!

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The chronological sequence is therefore:
  • Jesus had done trouble in Jerusalem
  • as consequence of that, the Galileans considered him "more than a prophet": the Messiah
  • Jesus goes to Cana, which is another name for Capernaum.
What follows is something of scandalous happened in Capernaum, since I agree with Peter Kirby when he writes:
Peter Kirby wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:06 am With the way that some of the canonical gospels treat Jesus in Capernaum, there appears to be something scandalous about the tradition that Jesus "came down to Capernaum" and about what happened there, which the various authors resolve in their own ways.
Has the Roman centurion here replaced a Jewish ruler of a previous similar episode?
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