Luke 4:16-31 (New International Version)
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He went to Nazareth,1 where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue,2 as was his custom. And he stood up to read.3
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The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
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"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,4 because he has anointed me to preach good news5 to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed,
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to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."a6
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Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.7 The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him,
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and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled8 in your hearing."
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All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. "Isn't this Joseph's son?" they asked.9
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Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: 'Physician, heal yourself ! Do here in your hometown10 what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' "11
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"I tell you the truth," he continued, "no prophet is accepted in his hometown.12
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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.13
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Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.14
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And there were many in Israel with leprosyb in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed--only Naaman the Syrian."15
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All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.
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They got up, drove him out of the town,16 and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him down the cliff.
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But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.17
Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit
4:31-37pp -- Mk 1:21-28
31 Then he went down to Capernaum,18 a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath began to teach the people.Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online)
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