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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and his fame went out through all the region round about.
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And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
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And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and stood up to read.
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And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
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The Spirit of the Lord
is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those that are broken,
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to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
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And he closed the book, and he gave
it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all those that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
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And he began to say unto them, Today this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.
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And all bore him witness and marvelled at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
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And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself; whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
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And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
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But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land,
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but unto none of them was Elijah sent, except unto Sarepta,
a city of Sidon, unto a widow woman.
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And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.
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And all those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath
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and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him unto the brow of the hill upon which their city was built that they might cast him down headlong.
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But he, passing through the midst of them, went away.
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And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
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And they were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was with power.
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And in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon and cried out with a loud voice,
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saying, Let
us alone; what have we to do with thee,
thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art: the Holy One of God.
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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent and come out of him. And the demon, throwing him down in the midst, came out of him and hurt him not.
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And they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, What word
is this! For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.
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And his fame went out into every place of the country round about.
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And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever, and they besought him for her.
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And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
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Now when the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with diverse diseases brought them unto him, and laying his hands on each one of them, he healed them.
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And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, Thou art the Christ, the Son of God. And he rebuking
them suffered them not to speak, for they knew that he was the Christ.