Luke 4:22–30
22 All spoke well of Jesus and were amazed at the gracious words that came from
his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked. 23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will
quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what
we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’” 24 “I tell you the truth, no prophet is
accepted in his hometown.
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. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the
region of Sidon. 27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha
the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”
28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29 They got
up, 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 down the cliff. 30 But he walked right through the
crowd and went on his way