John 4:44

Contemporary English Version

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
(Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

King James Version (1611)
For Iesus himselfe testified, that a Prophet hath no honour in his owne countrey.

King James Version
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

English Standard Version
(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)

New American Standard Bible
For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

New Century Version
(Jesus had said before that a prophet is not respected in his own country.)

Amplified Bible
For Jesus Himself declared that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Legacy Standard Bible
For Jesus Himself bore witness that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Berean Standard Bible
Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Complete Jewish Bible
Now Yeshua himself said, "A prophet is not respected in his own country."

Darby Translation
for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet has no honour in his own country.

Easy-to-Read Version
(Jesus had said before that a prophet is not respected in his own country.)

Geneva Bible (1587)
For Iesus himselfe had testified, that a Prophet hath none honour in his owne countrey.

George Lamsa Translation
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet is not honored in his own city.

Good News Translation
For he himself had said, "Prophets are not respected in their own country."

Lexham English Bible
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.

Literal Translation
For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own fatherland.

American Standard Version
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.

Bible in Basic English
For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.

Hebrew Names Version
For Yeshua himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

International Standard Version
For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.Matthew 13:57; Mark 6:4; Luke 4:24;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
for he himself testified, that a prophet in his own city is not honoured.

Murdock Translation
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet is not honored in his own city.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For Iesus hym selfe testified, that a prophete hath none honour in his owne countrey.

English Revised Version
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

World English Bible
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
(Now Jesus himself had testified, That a prophet hath not honour in his own country.)

Weymouth's New Testament
though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he bar witnessyng, that a profete in his owne cuntre hath noon onour.

Update Bible Version
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Webster's Bible Translation
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.

New English Translation
(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

New King James Version
For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

New Living Translation
He himself had said that a prophet is not honored in his own hometown.

New Life Bible
Jesus Himself said that no one who speaks for God is respected in his own country.

New Revised Standard
(for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet's own country).

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, Jesus himself, bare witness, that, a prophet, in his own fatherland, hath not, honour.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

Revised Standard Version
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And Iesus him selfe testified that a Prophete hath none honoure in his awne countre.

Young's Literal Translation
for Jesus himself testified that a prophet in his own country shall not have honour;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For Iesus himself testified, that a prophet is nothinge set by at home.

Mace New Testament (1729)
(tho' Jesus himself had declared, that a prophet is not honoured in his own country.)

Simplified Cowboy Version
He had already said that God's cowboys would be respected everywhere except his hometown,

Contextual Overview

⁴³Jesus had said, "Prophets are honored everywhere, except in their own country." Then two days later he left ⁴⁵ and went to Galilee. The people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything he had done. ⁴⁶ While Jesus was in Galilee, he returned to the village of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was an official in Capernaum whose son was sick. ⁴⁷ And when the man heard that Jesus had come from Judea, he went and begged him to keep his son from dying. ⁴⁸ Jesus told the official, "You won't have faith unless you see miracles and wonders!" ⁴⁹ The man replied, "Lord, please come before my son dies!" ⁵⁰ Jesus then said, "Your son will live. Go on home to him." The man believed Jesus and started back home. ⁵¹ Some of the official's servants met him along the road and told him, "Your son is better!" ⁵² He asked them when the boy got better, and they answered, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock." ⁵³ The boy's father realized that at one o'clock the day before, Jesus had told him, "Your son will live!" So the man and everyone in his family put their faith in Jesus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Matthew 13:57, Mark 6:4, Luke 4:24

Reciprocal: Hebrews 12:1 - witnesses

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For Jesus himself testified,.... Matthew 13:57;

that a prophet hath no honour in his own country: all the Oriental versions read, "in his own city"; that is, Nazareth: for these words must not be understood as a reason why Christ left Judea, and went into Galilee, because he had no honour in Judea, in which was Bethlehem, the place of his nativity; but are a reason why, when he came into Galilee, he did not go to Nazareth, his own city, where he was educated, and had been brought up, and had lived the greatest part of his life, because they treated him with great disrespect and contempt; Matthew 13:57- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For Jesus himself testified ... - See the notes at Matthew 13:57. The connection of this verse with the preceding may be thus explained: “Jesus went to Galilee, but not to Nazareth, for he testified,” etc. Or, “Jesus went to Galilee, ‘although’ he had said that a prophet had no honor in his own country; yet, because he foreknew that the Galileans would many of them believe on him, he went at this time.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 44. Jesus himself testified — He bore testimony to the general truth of the following proverb. Matthew 13:57; Matthew 13:57.