"No prophet is accepted in his own native place"

 Gospel text (Lk 4:24-30): Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”

When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. But he passed through the midst of them and went away.

Reflection:

"No prophet is accepted in his own native place." In this Gospel, it is clear that Jesus himself manifests that we cannot be accepted in our native place. That is why some if not all leaders for a place usually came from the outside of the place. However, there are some who is also accepted but may be a place who really wanted to have leaders who grows in the place as the person really familiar and knows the problems to be solved in that particular place. But we will no longer wonder what is the reason why certain person cannot be accepted in that place. He may be a native that is not acceptable in his own land.