For whatever value you wish to assign to it, Westcott wrote:
ariseth (ἐγίρεται, not ἐγήγερται)] The reference appears to be not so much to the past as to the future. Galilee is not the true country of the prophets; we cannot look then for Messiah to come thence. The words have that semblance of general truth which makes them quite natural in this connexion, though Jonah, Hoshea, Nahum, and perhaps Elijah, Elisha and Amos were of Galilee. Thus it was said by R. Jehuda in the name of Rab that “the law was maintained by the dwellers in Judæa” (‘Eruv.’ 53, as quoted by Wünsche). Comp. Neubauer, ‘La Geogr. du Talmud,’ pp. 183 f.
The Gospel According to St. John Introduction and Notes on the Authorized Version. Edited by Westcott, Brooke Foss and Arthur Westcott. Classic Commentaries on the Greek New Testament. London: J. Murray, 1908.