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. ³⁰But He passed right through the crowd and went on His way. ^v

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Footnotes

k4:22 Or They were testifying against Him
m4:23 Or parable
•This is a phrase used only by Jesus to testify to the certainty and importance of His words; in Mt, Mk, and Lk it is literally Amen, I say to you; in Jn it is literally Amen, amen, I say to you.
r4:27 cleansed
u4:29 brow

Cross references

j4:21 Jn 13:18; 15:25; 17:12; 19:28, 36; Ac 1:16; Jms 2:23
l4:22 Mt 13:55; Mk 6:3; Jn 6:42
n4:23 Mt 11:23; Mk 2:1–12; Jn 4:46–53
o4:24 Mt 13:57; Mk 6:4; Jn 4:44
p4:25 1Kg 17:1; 18:1; Jms 5:17
q4:26 1Kg 17:8–24
s4:27 2Kg 5:1–14
t4:29 Nm 15:35; Ac 7:58; Heb 13:12
v4:30 Jn 10:39