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And he said, "Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country.
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But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Eli'jah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;
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and Eli'jah was sent to none of them but only to Zar'ephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
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And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Eli'sha; and none of them was cleansed, but only Na'aman the Syrian."
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When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.
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And they rose up and put him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.
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But passing through the midst of them he went away.
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And he went down to Caper'na-um, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the sabbath;
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and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.
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And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,
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"Ah! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God."