Luke 4:21–30

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