Jesus Begins His Ministry
14 1And Jesus returned
2in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and
3a report about him went out through all the surrounding country.
15
And
4he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
16 5And he came to
6Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And
7as was his custom,
8he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up
9to read.
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And
10the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
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11“The Spirit of the Lord
12is upon me, because he has anointed me to
13proclaim good news to the poor.
14He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and
15recovering of sight to the blind,
16to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
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17to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. ”
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And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and
18sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were
19fixed on him.
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And he began to say to them, “Today
20this Scripture
21has been fulfilled in your hearing. ”
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And all spoke well of him and marveled at
22the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said,
23“Is not this
24Joseph’s son? ”
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And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb,
25‘Physician, heal yourself. ’ What we have heard you did
26at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well. ”
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And he said, “Truly, I say to you,
27no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
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But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when
28the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,
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and Elijah was sent to none of them
29but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
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And
30there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed,
31but only Naaman the Syrian. ”
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When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.
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And they rose up and
32drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.
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But
33passing through their midst, he went away.
