19to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.
21And he began to say to them, To-day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.
22And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?
23And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.
24And he said, Verily I say to you, that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.
25But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,
26and to none of them was Elias sent but to Sarepta of Sidonia, to a woman that was a widow.
27And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.
28And they were all filled with rage in the synagogue, hearing these things;
29and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, so that they might throw him down the precipice;
30but he, passing through the midst of them, went his way,