⁴ Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.”^{(A) 5} He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on^(B) a few sick people and heal them. ⁶ He was amazed at their lack of faith.

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve^(C)

Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village.^(D)

⁵⁷ And they took offense^(A) at him.

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home.”^(B)

⁵⁸ And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.

²⁴ “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.^{(A) 25} I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.^{(B) 26} Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.^{(C) 27} And there were many in Israel with leprosy^[a] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”^(D)