Examples:

Einstein flunked a grade school grade. Was he not a genius? He was bored with what they were trying to teach.

Galileo tried to explain the motions of the stars by placing the sun at the center of the universe (instead of the earth). Had he not have recanted, he’d have been burned at the stake as a heretic.

Jesus was another man misunderstood in his time. Yes, He was also God. But, he turned the Judean world upside down. One example is kicking the moneylenders out of temple. This really has to do with the fact that the priests would not accept Roman coins as offerings. Roman coins were the coin of the realm, it’s what everyone was paid with. So, some money exchangers set up camp right outside the temple…..and made a good profit by exchanging Roman coins into Hebrew money. This was sanctioned by the priests who also got a cut.

This act isn’t really explained well in the bible…..but put into context it can make sense.

What is the average IQ? It is 100, by definition of the IQ scales. So do you think a person with IQ of 100 is going to fully understand a paper on economic theory by someone with an IQ of 190?

And before the greatness, misunderstood is another way of saying, “ridiculed, disaproved, Mocked” .

so greatness is a form of uniqueness, and being unique usually gets it criticism. Until it becomes recgonized,praised, and that uniqueness is now great…