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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.
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He went down to Capernaum, a village in Galilee. He was teaching the people on the Sabbath.
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They were surprised and impressed - his teaching was so forthright, so confident, so authoritative, not the quibbling and quoting they were used to.
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In the meeting place that day there was a man demonically disturbed. He screamed,
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"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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Jesus shut him up: "Quiet! Get out of him!" The demonic spirit threw the man down in front of them all and left. The demon didn't hurt him.
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That set everyone back on their heels, whispering and wondering, "What's going on here? Someone whose words make things happen? Someone who orders demonic spirits to get out and they go?"