Matthew Poole and continuators on John 4:44

44 For Jesus himself testified, that a Prophet hath no honour in his own Countrey .

Christ spake those words more than once, Mat. 13.57. Mark 6.4. Luke 4.24. But the Question is, what force of Reason this hath, why he went into Galilee, when as Nazareth, which was in Galilee, was his own Countrey; for tho he was Born in Bethlehem, yet he was Educated at Nazareth; upon which account, Luke 4.23. it is called his own Countrey? The best Resolution of this Difficulty is, That by Galilee here is to be understood, the Country-part of Galilee, exclusive to Nazareth; and this is not given as a Reason why our Saviour went into Galilee, but why he did not go to Nazareth, but into the Country-part of Galilee, because Nazareth was his own Countrey, and a Prophet is not without honour, except in his own Countrey.