Luke 4:18-30 (The Message)
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God's Spirit is on me; he's chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free,
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to announce, "This is God's year to act!"
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He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the assistant, and sat down. Every eye in the place was on him, intent.
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Then he started in, "You've just heard Scripture make history. It came true just now in this place."
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All who were there, watching and listening, were surprised at how well he spoke. But they also said, "Isn't this Joseph's son, the one we've known since he was a youngster?"
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He answered, "I suppose you're going to quote the proverb, 'Doctor, go heal yourself. Do here in your hometown what we heard you did in Capernaum.'
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Well, let me tell you something: No prophet is ever welcomed in his hometown.
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Isn't it a fact that there were many widows in Israel at the time of Elijah during that three and a half years of drought when famine devastated the land,
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but the only widow to whom Elijah was sent was in Sarepta in Sidon?
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And there were many lepers in Israel at the time of the prophet Elisha but the only one cleansed was Naaman the Syrian."
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That set everyone in the meeting place seething with anger.
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They threw him out, banishing him from the village, then took him to a mountain cliff at the edge of the village to throw him to his doom,
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but he gave them the slip and was on his way.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved. (The Message Bible Online)
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