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He taught in their synagogues, and everyone respected him.
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Now when he went to Natzeret, where he had been brought up, on Shabbat he went to the synagogue as usual. He stood up to read,
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and he was given the scroll of the prophet Yesha`yahu. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written,
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"The Spirit of ADONAI is upon me; therefore he has anointed me to announce Good News to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned and renewed sight for the blind, to release those who have been crushed,
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to proclaim a year of the favor of ADONAI."
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After closing the scroll and returning it to the shammash, he sat down; and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.
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He started to speak to them: "Today, as you heard it read, this passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled!"
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Everyone was speaking well of him and marvelling that such appealing words were coming from his mouth. They were even asking, "Can this be Yosef's son?"
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Then Yeshua said to them, "No doubt you will quote to me this proverb -- `"Doctor, cure yourself!" We've heard about all the things that have been going on over in K'far-Nachum; now do them here in your home town!'
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Yes!" he said, "I tell you that no prophet is accepted in his home town.
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It's true, I'm telling you -- when Eliyahu was in Isra'el, and the sky was sealed off for threeand-a-half years, so that all the Land suffered a severe famine, there were many widows;