Luke 4:16–30

¹⁶He went to Nazareth,^l where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue,^m as was his custom. He stood up to read,^{n 17}and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,^o

because he has anointed me

to proclaim good news^p to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners

and recovery of sight for the blind,

to set the oppressed free,

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

²⁰Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.^r The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. ²¹He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled^s in your hearing.”

²²All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.^t

²³Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown^u what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’ ”^v

²⁴“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.^{w 25}I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.^{x 26}Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.^{y 27}And there were many in Israel with leprosy^g in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”^z

²⁸All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. ²⁹They got up, drove him out of the town,^a and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. ³⁰But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.^b