Luke 4:24-30

And he said, “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. 25^* 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.^o 26^* It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath^p in the land of Sidon. 27Again, 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.”^q 28When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. 29They 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. 30But he passed through the midst of them and went away. 

Christ the Teacher.  Teaching a hard lesson is not easy, for the teacher, or the student.  Here the people of  Nazareth do not want to hear Jesus' teaching, that he would do no miracle for them, because they did not believe in Him.  He was a prophet who was not accepted in his own land.

The people of Nazareth were no worse than any of thers, but they wanted a sign, they could not believe that a man they had known as the son of Joseph, a carpenter, would be the Messiah.  Or a Prophet.  So they asked for a sign.  And when it was not forthcoming, they tried to kill Christ.    The fault was theirs for not seeing what God had surely placed before them, Jesus Christ.  The petty contempt that keeps us from seeing our neighbors as they truly are, when they are different than we believe, stopped their eyes and filled their hearts with rocks.

A prophet is not accepted in his own land.