Saying 31: No Prophet in His Own Village
No prophet is welcome in his own village; no doctor heals the people who know him.
Commentary
Attested in all four canonical gospels and in the Greek Oxyrhynchus fragment — one of the best-attested sayings of Jesus anywhere, and one where Thomas’s wording is tighter than any of them.
Parallels
Mark 6:4; Matthew 13:57; Luke 4:23–24; John 4:44
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