Luke 4:16–29

Rejected at Nazareth

¹⁶And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up,^g and according to his custom^h he entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath and stood up to read. ¹⁷And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll he found the place where it was written,

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,

because of which he has anointed me

to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me

to proclaim release to the captives,

and recovery of sight to the blind,

to send out in freedom those who are oppressed,

¹⁹to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.”ⁱ

²⁰And he rolled up the scroll and^* gave it^* back to the attendant and^* sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were looking intently at him. ²¹And he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” ²²And they were all speaking well of him, and were astonished at the gracious words that were coming out of his mouth. And they were saying, “Is this man not the son of Joseph?” ²³And he said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ Whatever we have heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also!” ²⁴And he said, “Truly I say to you that no prophet is acceptable in his own hometown. ²⁵But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months while a great famine took place over all the land. ²⁶And Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. ²⁷And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was made clean except Naaman the Syrian.” ²⁸And all those in the synagogue were filled with anger when they^* heard these things. ²⁹And they stood up and^* forced him out of the town and brought him up to the edge of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.