ACC ~ John 4 v43

THE RESULTS OF TWO DAYS IN SAMARIA VERSUS GALILEE

AUGUSTINE: Jesus left for Galilee, where he grew up. Why then does the Evangelist add immediately, “For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country”? It was not because he had no honor in Samaria. Samaria, after all, was not his own country; Galilee was…. But it would have seemed that he had testified more to the truth of the Evangelist’s statement if he had remained in Samaria and stayed away from Galilee…. This is not the case, however. He stayed two days in Samaria, and the Samaritans believed in him; he stayed many more days in Galilee, and the Galileans did not believe in him. TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 16.1, 3. [1]

[1] NPNF 1 7:108**.

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