Luke 4:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 23,24. Christ here tells those of Nazareth what was in their hearts, viz. that they in their hearts contemned him, because of the meanness of his parentage, and challenged him to confirm his doctrine by miracles, urging that Nazareth was his own country, and physicians in the first place ought to cure themselves, and their friends, and those of their own families; they therefore challenge him to work some such miracles as he had before wrought in Capernaum, as they had heard. He gives them the reason why he did no miracles amongst them, viz. because he discerned that they contemned them, as is very usual for persons, according to that common saying: No prophet is accepted in his own country. The reference here to some things done before this time in Capernaum, would incline us to think that after Christ's temptations he first went to Cana of Galilee, where he wrought his first miracle, 1 Thessalonians 2:1, turning the water into wine, then to Capernaum, where he staid not many days, 1 Thessalonians 2:12, then to Nazareth; but hearing that John was cast into prison, he removed from Nazareth to Capernaum, out of the jurisdiction of Herod, under the milder government of Philip his brother.