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Then Yeshua said to them, "No doubt you will quote to me this proverb -- `"Doctor, cure yourself!" We've heard about all the things that have been going on over in K'far-Nachum; now do them here in your home town!'
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Yes!" he said, "I tell you that no prophet is accepted in his home town.
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It's true, I'm telling you -- when Eliyahu was in Isra'el, and the sky was sealed off for threeand-a-half years, so that all the Land suffered a severe famine, there were many widows;
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but Eliyahu was sent to none of them, only to a widow in Tzarfat in the land of Tzidon.
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Also there were many people with tzara`at in Isra'el during the time of the prophet Elisha; but not one of them was healed, only Na`aman the Syrian."
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On hearing this, everyone in the synagogue was filled with fury.
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They rose up, drove him out of town and dragged him to the edge of the cliff on which their town was built, intending to throw him off.
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But he walked right through the middle of the crowd and went away.
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He went down to K'far-Nachum, a town in the Galil, and made a practice of teaching them on Shabbat.
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They were amazed at the way he taught, because his word carried the ring of authority.
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In the synagogue there was a man who had an unclean demonic spirit, who shouted in a loud voice,