Luke 4:14-30

¹⁴Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about Him spread throughout the whole surrounding area;

¹⁵yes, He started teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

¹⁶So He came to Natsareth, where He had been brought up; as was His custom He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

¹⁷The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, so unrolling the scroll He found the place where it was written:

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to evangelize poor people. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to blind people, to send those who are oppressed out in freedom,

¹⁹to proclaim the Lord's favorable year.”

²⁰Then, having rolled up the scroll and returned it to the attendant, He sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on Him,

²¹and He began by saying to them, “Today, this Scripture in your ears has been fulfilled.”

²²(All were bearing witness to Him and were marveling at the gracious words that were coming out of His mouth; and they started saying, “Isn't this the son of Joseph?”)

²³He said to them: “Doubtless you will quote this parable to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’—do here in your hometown the things we have heard were done in Capernaum.”

²⁴Then He said: “Assuredly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown.

²⁵Further, I can assure you that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months and a severe famine came over all the land;

²⁶yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow woman in Sarepta, near Sidon.

²⁷And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet not one of them was cleansed—just Naaman the Syrian.”

²⁸Well, upon hearing these things everyone in the synagogue was filled with fury,

²⁹and rising up they drove Him out of the town 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, passing through the middle of them, went on His way.