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And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he entered, according to his custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.
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And [the] book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and having unrolled 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 glad tidings to [the] poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to [the] blind sight, to send forth [the] crushed delivered,
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to preach [the] acceptable year of [the] Lord.
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And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.
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And he began to say to them, To-day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.
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And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?
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And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.
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And he said, Verily I say to you, that no prophet is acceptable in his [own] country.
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But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,
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and to none of them was Elias sent but to Sarepta of Sidonia, to a woman [that was] a widow.