Luke 4:24-34

24 Well, let me tell you something: No prophet is ever welcomed in his hometown.
25 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,
26 but the only widow to whom Elijah was sent was in Sarepta in Sidon?
27 And there were many lepers in Israel at the time of the prophet Elisha but the only one cleansed was Naaman the Syrian."
28 That set everyone in the meeting place seething with anger.
29 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,
30 but he gave them the slip and was on his way.
31 He went down to Capernaum, a village in Galilee. He was teaching the people on the Sabbath.
32 They were surprised and impressed - his teaching was so forthright, so confident, so authoritative, not the quibbling and quoting they were used to.
33 In the meeting place that day there was a man demonically disturbed. He screamed,
34 "Ho! What business do you have here with us, Jesus? Nazarene! I know what you're up to. You're the Holy One of God and you've come to destroy us!"
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