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24 "I tell you in solemn truth," He added, "that no Prophet is welcomed among his own people.
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“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.
25 But I tell you in truth that there was many a widow in Israel in the time of Elijah, when there was no rain for three years and six months and there came a severe famine over all the land;
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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 and yet to not one of them was Elijah sent: he was only sent to a widow at Zarephath in the Sidonian country.
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Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.
27 And there was also many a leper in Israel in the time of the Prophet Elisha, and yet not one of them was cleansed, but Naaman the Syrian was."
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And there were many in Israel with leprosyin the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”
28 Then all in the synagogue, while listening to these words, were filled with fury.
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All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.
29 They rose, hurried Him outside the town, and brought Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to throw Him down the cliff;
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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 passed through the midst of them and went His way.
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But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.
31 So He came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, where He frequently taught the people on the Sabbath days.
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Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people.
32 And they were greatly impressed by His teaching, because He spoke with the language of authority.
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They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority.
33 But in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of a foul demon. In a loud voice he cried out,
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In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice,
34 "Ha! Jesus the Nazarene, what have you to do with us? I know who you are--God's Holy One!"
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“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!”
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