‘No prophet arises from Galilee’, the Pharisees attest today. Jesus is accounted as nothing because he is not what they are looking for and worse, he is from a backwater nothing of a town. This passage gave me pause. I wonder how often I ignore folks and what they say because they are not ‘learned’ or are from a different background, and not someone from whom I expect to hear wisdom. Why do I do that? I get annoyed when I am blown off or ignored because I am a woman—a woman from a farm, no less!! I need to accord others the same respect I want to be accorded, and listen to them. God may be speaking to me though them just as he did through the man from Galilee.
