Matthew 13:57

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐσκανδαλίζοντο ἐν αὐτῷ. Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Οὐκ ἔστιν προφήτης ἄτιμος, εἰ μὴ ἐν τῇ πατρίδι αὑτοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ αὐτοῦ.

Transliteration

And they were eskandalizonto in him. But the Iēsous eipen to them, Not estin prophētēs atimos, except in the patridi of himself, and in the oikia of him.

Grammar Details

• *eskandalizonto*: imperfect passive indicative, 3rd person plural - were being offended
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *prophētēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - prophet
• *atimos*: nominative, masculine, singular - without honor
• *patridi*: dative, feminine, singular - hometown
• *oikia*: dative, feminine, singular - house/household

Word Meanings

• *eskandalizonto*: were being offended/caused to stumble/made to fall away
• *Iēsous*: Jesus/Yeshua
• *eipen*: said/spoke/told
• *prophētēs*: prophet/one who speaks for God
• *atimos*: without honor/unhonored/disrespected
• *patridi*: hometown/native place/fatherland
• *oikia*: house/household/family

Referenced Verses

• Matt 11:6 : 6 And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.
• Luke 4:24 : 24 And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.
• John 4:44 : 44 For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.
• John 6:61 : 61 When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?
• Acts 3:22-23 : 22 For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you. 23 And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.
• Acts 7:37-39 : 37 This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me. 38 This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you. 39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,
• Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;
• 1 Cor 1:23-28 : 23 But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles; 24 But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God. 25 Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men. 26 For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble: 27 But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong; 28 And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:
• John 6:42 : 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?
• Luke 7:23 : 23 And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.
• Isa 8:14 : 14 And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.
• Isa 49:7 : 7 The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.
• Isa 53:3 : 3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
• Mark 6:3 : 3 Is not this the woodworker, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were bitter against him.
• Mark 6:14 : 14 And king Herod had news of him, because his name was on the lips of all; and he said, John the Baptist has come back from the dead, and for this reason these powers are working in him.
• Luke 2:34-35 : 34 And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said; 35 (And a sword will go through your heart;) so that the secret thoughts of men may come to light.