Good News in Nazareth

14And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding region.

15And he was teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

16And he came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and as was his custom, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

17And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and after unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written:

18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send out the oppressed in release,

19to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.

20And after rolling up the scroll and giving it back to the attendant, he sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

21Then he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

22And all were speaking well of him and were marveling at the gracious words coming from his mouth, and they were saying, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

23And he said to them, “Surely you will say to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself.’ Whatever we have heard was done in Capernaum, do here also in your hometown.”

24And he said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.”

25But I tell you truly, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, as a great famine came over all the land.

26And Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath of Sidon, to a widow.

27And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.

28And all in the synagogue were filled with anger when they heard these things,

29And rising up, they drove him out of the town and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, so as to throw him down.

30But he, passing through their midst, went on his way.