Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 4:24

24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet i[illegible: 1 letter] accepted in his own country.

Christ [illegible: 2 letters]re tells those of Nazareth, what was in their hearts, viz. That they i[illegible: 1 letter] their hearts contemned him, because of the meanness of hi[illegible: 1 letter] Parentage, and challenged him to confirm his Doctrine by Miracles▪ urging that Nazareth was his own Country, and Phys[illegible: 1 letter]c[illegible: 1 letter]ans in the first place ought to cure themselves, and their Friends and t[illegible: 1 letter]o[illegible: 1 letter]e of their own Families; they therefore challenge him to work some such Miracles, as he had before wrought in Capernaum, as they had heard. He gives them the reason why he did no Miracles amongst them, viz. because he discerned that they contemned them, as is very usual for Persons, according to that common saying, No Prophet is accepted in his own Country. The reference here to some things done before this time in Capernaum, would incline us to think that after Christs Temptations, he [illegible: 1 word] went to Cana of Galilee, where he wrought his first Miracle Iohn 2.1. turning the Water into Wine, then to Capernaum, where he staid not many days, Iohn 2.12. then to Nazareth, but [illegible: 1 letter]earing that Iohn was cast into Prison, he removed from Nazareth to Capernaum, out of the jurisdiction of Herod, under the m[illegible: 1 letter]lder Government of Philip his Brother.

Marginal references: M[illegible: 1 letter]t. [illegible: 1 span]