What's Worse Than a Double Negative?

In this Sunday's reading from Mark 6:1-13, Jesus is presented with the unbelief of his home town.

He left that place and came to his home town, and his disciples followed him. On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, ‘Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands! Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?’ And they took offence at him. Then Jesus said to them, ‘Prophets are not without honor, except in their home town, and among their own kin, and in their own house.’ And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. And he was amazed at their unbelief.

The words, "...not without honor except..." remind me of those tricky multiple choice questions that read something like this, "All the following are not false except..." or some such nonsense. I call them "triple negatives". While I hate double negatives, triple negatives are even worse. They slow you down and make you reason out the meaning of a speaker, a sentence, or a question. As long as it is in the Bible, I guess I shouldn't mind being made to slow down and think, but when a string of negatives shows up on an examination, I hate it,

And there are not too many things I hate. I dislike a lot of things. Take when people won't listen for instance. Jesus teaches how to deal with that when it comes to the Gospel,

Then he went about among the villages teaching. He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. He said to them, ‘Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.’ So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent. They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.

I used to think that people would listen to reason, but found that only some do. What should we do for those who because of their refusal make us shake the dust off our feet? 

I pray that some day their eyes, ears, and hearts are opened.