They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”

“a prophet does not come out of Galilee.” The rulers are so enraged that they make a false statement. In fact, at least 3 and maybe more prophets came from Galilee: Jonah (2 Kings 14:25), Elijah (1 Kings 17:1), and Nahum (Nahum 1:1).

2 Kings 14:25  He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, in accordance with the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

1 Kings 17:1  Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”

Nahum 1:1  An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Perhaps even more serious than their brief lapse of memory concerning the birthplace of some of the prophets, is their failure to believe that God can raise up a prophet any place and any time He wants. How do you limit God? Do you deny Him the ability to do what He wants when He wants, even if it doesn’t agree with what you think should happen?