Luke 4:24-34

24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “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[a] 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 off the cliff.
30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.

Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit

31 Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people.
32 They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority.
33 In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice,
34 “Go away! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

Cross References 13

  • 1. Matthew 13:57; John 4:44
  • 2. 1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:1; James 5:17,18; Revelation 11:6
  • 3. 1 Kings 17:8-16; S Matthew 11:21
  • 4. 2 Kings 5:1-14
  • 5. Numbers 15:35; Acts 7:58; Hebrews 13:12
  • 6. John 8:59; John 10:39
  • 7. ver 23; S Matthew 4:13
  • 8. S Matthew 7:28
  • 9. ver 36; Matthew 7:29
  • 10. S Matthew 8:29
  • 11. S Mark 1:24
  • 12. James 2:19
  • 13. ver 41; S Mark 1:24

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The Greek word traditionally translated "leprosy" was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
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