Rejection at Nazareth
16 He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As usual, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.
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The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to Him, and unrolling the scroll, He found the place where it was written:
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The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed,
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to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
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He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
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He began by saying to them, "Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled."
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They were all speaking well of Him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from His mouth, yet they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"
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Then He said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me: 'Doctor, heal yourself.' 'All we've heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown also.' "
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He also said, "I assure you: No prophet is accepted in his hometown.
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But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.
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Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them-but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
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And in the prophet Elisha's time, there were many in Israel who had serious skin diseases, yet not one of them was healed -only Naaman the Syrian."
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When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged.
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They got up, drove Him out of town, and brought Him to the edge of the hill their town was built on, intending to hurl Him over the cliff.
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But He passed right through the crowd and went on His way.