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"I tell you in solemn truth," He added, "that no Prophet is welcomed among his own people.
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But I tell you in truth that there was many a widow in Israel in the time of Elijah, when there was no rain for three years and six months and there came a severe famine over all the land;
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and yet to not one of them was Elijah sent: he was only sent to a widow at Zarephath in the Sidonian country.
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And there was also many a leper in Israel in the time of the Prophet Elisha, and yet not one of them was cleansed, but Naaman the Syrian was."
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Then all in the synagogue, while listening to these words, were filled with fury.
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They rose, hurried Him outside the town, and brought Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to throw Him down the cliff;
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but He passed through the midst of them and went His way.
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So He came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, where He frequently taught the people on the Sabbath days.
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And they were greatly impressed by His teaching, because He spoke with the language of authority.
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But in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of a foul demon. In a loud voice he cried out,
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"Ha! Jesus the Nazarene, what have you to do with us? I know who you are--God's Holy One!"