Luke 4:16–29

Rejection at Nazareth

¹⁶He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. ^aAs usual, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day ^band stood up to read. ^c17The 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 ^d

to proclaim freedom ^e to the captives

and recovery of sight to the blind,

to set free the oppressed,

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

²⁰He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. ⁱAnd 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.” ^j

²²They were all speaking well of Him ^kand were amazed by the gracious words that came from His mouth, yet they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” ^l

²³Then He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb ^mto Me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. So all we’ve heard that took place in Capernaum, ⁿdo here in Your hometown also.’ ”

²⁴He also said, “^•I assure you: No prophet is accepted in his hometown. ^o25But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, ^pwhen 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—but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. ^q27And in the prophet Elisha’s time, there were many in Israel who had serious skin diseases, yet not one of them was healed ^r—only Naaman the Syrian.” ^s

²⁸When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged. ²⁹They got up, drove Him out of town, ^tand brought Him to the edge ^uof the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl Him over the cliff.