The Nugget:
John 7:52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
My Comment:
On this site I tend to repeat myself. That is on purpose. New readers will often not know what I posted here before so whatever I post will be new to them. Long time readers here may have forgotten that I posted on the current subject in the past.
Here is a link to my previous in-depth explanation of John 7:52,
I found some things there that I myself forgot I had written!
I stated (based on notes in the Companion Bible):
If they had looked, they would have found that Jonah and Hosea arose out of Galilee, and perhaps Elijah, Elisha, and Amos (CB). See Isa 9:2 where the Messiah as the great light arises in all likelihood out of Galilee (Isa 9:1).
The scribes and Pharisees were unaware of the geography of their own country!
The facts as given incidentally in the Bible do confirm that Jonah, Hosea, Elijah, Elisha, and Amos arose out of Galilee. The way to ferret this information out from the Bible is to follow carefully the cross references given in The Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury.
For Elijah, referred to as “Elijah the Tishbite,” see the references and notes given at 1 Kings 17:1,
the Tishbite. i.e. captivity; recourse, *S# H8664. 1Ki 21:17; 1Ki 21:28, 2Ki 1:3; 2Ki 1:8; 2Ki 9:36, From Tishbe, a city of Naphtali in Galilee (Young). +*Joh 7:52.
For Jonah, see the references and notes given at 2 Kings 14:25,
2Ki 14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
Jonah. i.e. a dove. +Jon 1:1, Mat 12:39, 40; Mat 16:4, Jonas.
Amittai. i.e. true, steadfast. *S# H573: 2Ki 14:25, Jon 1:1.
Gath-hepher. i.e. wine-press of the well. S# H1662. Jos 19:13, Gittah-hepher. +*Joh 7:52, In Zebulun, in Galilee.
For Micah, see the references and notes given at Micah 1:1,
Mic 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Micah. i.e. who is like Jehovah?
(2) The sixth of the minor prophets, a native of Moresheth-gath, west of Jerusalem, in Gath. Thus Micah is one of several prophets who did come out of Galilee (%Joh 7:52). He was a contemporary of Isaiah, and prophesied during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, B.C. 750-698,
Morasthite. Micah is one of several prophets who did come out of Galilee (%Joh 7:52), as did Jonah (Jon 1:1 note), Hosea, and probably Elijah, Elisha, and Amos. Mic 1:14, +Jer 26:18.
It seems ironic that the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’s day were not more aware of at least these examples found in their own Hebrew Scriptures of prophets who did arise out of Galilee.
Maybe I should cut them a little slack, though. They had to read and search through Bible books scroll by scroll. They could not have imagined back then anything like the instantaneous search results we can now get for our Bible studies using digital resources.