"43 After the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honour in his own home town.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.
46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51 As he was going down, his servantsmet him and told him that his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household. 54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee."
John 4:43-54
A point of practical importance arises in 43-45, from our Lord's quotation of the proverb about a prophet having no honour in his own country. Two interpretations are possible. One is that Judaea is to be taken as 'his own country' and, if this be so, the meaning is that, having been repudiated as to His testimony in Judaea, He came northwards to Samaria and Galilee, and so to Cana, where the people's welcome of Him on a previous occasion (2:1ff) had drawn forth a manifestation of His power, in the turning of the water into wine. This prompts the reflection that Jesus does tend to return to the places which have made Him welcome and have given Him His rightful place; and this is precisely where He may be expected to work more miracles. The second interpretation, however, is that, Nazareth being His home country, Jesus was even thus early deliberately seeking to withdraw from public ministry and concentrate on His chosen followers. And perhaps the contrast that is meant here is between the simple reception of Him by the Samaritans in 39ff, and the interest the Galileans were showing in Him because of the miracles He had performed at Jerusalem. The pattern of events had been as follows: In Jerusalem, men had been prepared to recognize Him because of His miracles; but this was not the kind of response Jesus was prepared to acknowledge (2:23ff). In Samaria, there had been no miracles, only the Word, yet many had come to genuine faith in Him there. And now, once again, as soon as He crossed the border into Galilee, He came up against the same preoccupation with signs and wonders, hence His words in 48.