Luke 4:16–30

REJECTION AT NAZARETH

¹⁶He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.^p As usual, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day^q and stood up to read.^{r 17}The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written:

¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord is on me,

because he has anointed me

to preach good news to the poor.

He has sent me^A

to proclaim release^B to the captives

and recovery of sight to the blind,

to set free the oppressed,

¹⁹to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.^Cs

²⁰He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down.^t And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. ²¹He began by saying to them, “Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled.”^u

²²They were all speaking well of him^D and were amazed by the gracious words that came from his mouth; yet they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”^v

²³Then he said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb^E to me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. What we’ve heard that took place in Capernaum,^w do here in your hometown also.’ ”

²⁴He also said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.^{x 25}But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days,^y when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land. ²⁶Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them except a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.^{z 27}And in the prophet Elisha’s time, there were many in Israel who had leprosy, and yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”^aa

²⁸When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged. ²⁹They got up, drove him out of town,^ab and brought him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl him over the cliff. ³⁰But he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.^ac