After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.
A prophet hath no honor in his own country ... The injection of this proverb in such a manner as to make it a reason for Jesus' going into Galilee (which was his own country) presents a problem that has been solved in various ways.  Alford thought that Jesus intended to bring about a decline in his popularity, that being exactly why he had stopped baptizing and headed north.  If that indeed was the Master's purpose, in order to avoid a premature crisis with the Pharisees, then the proverb fits.  And yet the very next verse states that the Galileans received him, having seen the miracles done in Jerusalem when they went up to the feast.  Meyer explained that Jesus' mention of the proverb might have been intended to suggest somewhat indirectly the reason of his going to Galilee.  Thus: