So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.

 All three synoptic gospels tell of the saying of Jesus that a prophet has no honour in his own country ( Mark 6:4; Matthew 13:57; Luke 4:24). It was an ancient proverb with much the same meaning as our own "familiarity breeds contempt." But John introduces it in a very strange place. The other gospels introduce it on occasions when Jesus was rejected by his own countrymen; John introduces it on an occasion when he was accepted. 