Jesus’ Public Ministry

¹⁴ And ^(A)Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and ^(B)news about Him spread through all the surrounding region. ¹⁵ And He began ^(C)teaching in their synagogues and was praised by all.

¹⁶ And He came to ^(D)Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, ^(E)He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and ^(F)stood up to read. ¹⁷ And the scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to Him. And He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:

²⁰ And He ^(I)rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and ^(J)sat down; and the eyes of all the people in the synagogue were intently directed at Him. ²¹ Now He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ^[a]hearing.” ²² And all the people were ^[b]speaking well of Him, and admiring the ^[c]gracious words which were coming from His ^[d]lips; and yet they were saying, “^(K)Is this not Joseph’s son?”

²⁴ But He said, “Truly I say to you, ^(A)no prophet is welcome in his hometown. ²⁵ But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel ^(B)in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a ^[a]severe famine came over all the land; ²⁶ and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to ^[b](C)Zarephath, in the land of ^(D)Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. ²⁷ And there were many with leprosy in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was ^[c]cleansed, but only ^(E)Naaman the Syrian.” ²⁸ And all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things; ²⁹ and they got up and ^(F)drove Him out of the city, and brought Him to the ^[d]crest of the hill on which their city had been built, so that they could throw Him down from the cliff. ³⁰ But He ^(G)passed through their midst and went on His way.

³¹ And ^(H)He came down to ^(I)Capernaum, a city of Galilee; and He was teaching them on the Sabbath; ³² and ^(J)they were amazed at His teaching, because ^(K)His ^[e]message was delivered with authority. ³³ In the synagogue there was a man ^[f]possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, ³⁴ “Leave us alone! ^[g](L)What business do You have with us, Jesus ^[h]of ^(M)Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—^(N)the Holy One of God!” ³⁵ But Jesus ^(O)rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, it came out of him without doing him any harm. ³⁶ And amazement came upon them all, and they began talking with one another, saying, “What is ^[i]this message? For ^(P)with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!” ³⁷ And ^(Q)the news about Him was spreading into every locality of the surrounding region.

^42 (A)Now when day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place; and the crowds were searching for Him, and they came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving them. ⁴³ But He said to them, “I must also preach the kingdom of God to the other cities, ^(B)because I was sent for this purpose.”