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“Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land.
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Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
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And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.”
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When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious.
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Jumping up, they mobbed him and forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended to push him over the cliff,
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but he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.
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Then Jesus went to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and taught there in the synagogue every Sabbath day.
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There, too, the people were amazed at his teaching, for he spoke with authority.
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Once when he was in the synagogue, a man possessed by a demon—an evil spirit—began shouting at Jesus,
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“Go away! Why are you interfering 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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Jesus cut him short. “Be quiet! Come out of the man,” he ordered. At that, the demon threw the man to the floor as the crowd watched; then it came out of him without hurting him further.