Luke 4:25-40

²⁵There were, doubtless, many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, and a severe famine prevailed throughout the country;

²⁶and yet it was not to one of them that Elijah was sent, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidonia.

²⁷And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet it was not one of them who was made clean, but Naaman the Syrian.”

²⁸All the people in the synagogue, as they listened to this, became enraged.

²⁹Starting up, they drove Jesus out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town stood, intending to hurl him down.

³⁰But he passed through the middle of the crowd and went on his way.

³¹Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee. On the Sabbath he taught the people.

³²They were amazed at his teaching, because his words were spoken with authority.

³³In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of a foul demon in him, who called out loudly,

³⁴“Stop! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — the Holy One of God!”

³⁵But Jesus rebuked the demon. “Be silent! Come out from him,” he said. The demon flung the man down in the middle of the people, and then came out from him, without causing him further harm.

³⁶And they were all lost in amazement, and kept saying to one another, “What words are these? For he gives his commands to the foul spirits with a marvelous authority, and they come out.”

³⁷And rumors about Jesus traveled through every place in the region.

³⁸On leaving the synagogue, Jesus went into Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was suffering from a severe attack of fever, and they asked Jesus to cure her.

³⁹Bending over her, he rebuked the fever; the fever left her, and she immediately got up and began to take care of them.

⁴⁰At sunset, all who had friends suffering from various diseases took them to Jesus; and he placed his hands on everyone of them and cured them.