familiarity

• breeds contempt

82:5.6Out­mar­riage fi­nally dom­i­nated be­cause it was fa­vored by the man; to get a wife from the out­side in­sured greater free­dom from in-laws. Fa­mil­iar­ity breeds con­tempt; so, as the el­e­ment of in­di­vid­ual choice be­gan to dom­i­nate mat­ing, it be­came the cus­tom to choose part­ners from out­side the tribe.

• prophets honored, save in own country

138:0.2Un­til af­ter the res­ur­rec­tion, Je­sus’ en­tire fam­ily had very lit­tle to do with his min­istry. If a prophet is not with­out honor save in his own coun­try, he is not with­out un­der­stand­ing ap­pre­ci­a­tion save in his own fam­ily.

• prophets honored, save in own country

150:9.1Je­sus found him­self sur­rounded in the syn­a­gogue by a great throng of his en­e­mies and a sprin­kling of his own fol­low­ers, and in re­ply to their rude ques­tions and sin­is­ter ban­ter­ings he half hu­mor­ously re­marked: “Yes, I am Joseph’s son; I am the car­pen­ter, and I am not sur­prised that you re­mind me of the proverb, ‘Physi­cian heal your­self,’ and that you chal­lenge me to do in Naz­a­reth what you have heard I did at Ca­per­naum; but I call you to wit­ness that even the Scrip­tures de­clare that ‘a prophet is not with­out honor save in his own coun­try and among his own peo­ple.’”