John Chrysostom

Wherefore is this added? Because He departed not unto Capernaum, but into Galilee, and thence to Cana. For that thou mayest not enquire why He tarried not with His own people, but tarried with the Samaritans, the Evangelist puts the cause, saying that they gave no heed unto Him; on this account He went not thither, that their condemnation might not be the greater. …

Homily on the Gospel of John 35 ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. For we people ordinarily despise what has become commonplace, while we always pay attention to what is strange and unusual. What then? Do we not see many who are honored among their own? Yes, but this is very rare. And if some are honored even in their own country, in a foreign land they will be esteemed far more, so that the honor shown in one's homeland, when compared with the honor in a foreign land, will seem like dishonor. …

Commentary on John ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Then he gives a certain reason, saying: Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. There are two questions here: one is about the literal meaning; and the other about the continuity of this passage with the first. The problem about the literal meaning is that it does not seem to be true, as stated here, that a prophet has no honor in his own country: for we read that other prophets were honored in their own land. …

Commentary on John ↗

Bonaventure

"For Jesus himself bore witness," that is, he asserted as true, "that a prophet has no honor in his own country:" Luke 4: "No prophet is accepted in his own country." The Gloss says that because on his first coming into Galilee he had not received honor, therefore he returns yet a second time, so that at least in this way they might believe in him through signs. For they had already been in some way disposed through the signs which they had seen in Jerusalem. …

Commentary on John, Chapter 4 ↗