Luke 4:16–29

Rejection at Nazareth

¹⁶So He came to ^sNazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, ^tHe went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. ¹⁷And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:

¹⁸“The ^uSpirit of the Lord is upon Me,

Because He has anointed Me

To preach the gospel to the poor;

He has sent Me ⁹to heal the brokenhearted,

To proclaim liberty to the captives

And recovery of sight to the blind,

To ^vset at liberty those who are ¹oppressed;

¹⁹To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

²⁰Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. ²¹And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is ^wfulfilled in your hearing.” ²²So all bore witness to Him, and ^xmarveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, ^y“Is this not Joseph’s son?”

²³He said to them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in ^zCapernaum, ²do also here in ^aYour country.’ ” ²⁴Then He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, no ^bprophet is accepted in his own country. ²⁵But I tell you truly, ^cmany widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; ²⁶but to none of them was Elijah sent except to ³Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. ^27dAnd many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

²⁸So all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were ^efilled with ⁴wrath, ^29fand rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff.