Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

¹⁴ Jesus returned to Galilee^(A) in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.^{(B) 15} He was teaching in their synagogues,^(C) and everyone praised him.

¹⁶ He went to Nazareth,^(D) where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue,^(E) as was his custom. He stood up to read,^{(F) 17} and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

²⁰ Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.^(J) The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. ²¹ He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled^(K) in your hearing.”

²² All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.^(L)

²³ Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown^(M) what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”^(N)

²⁴ “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.^{(O) 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.^{(P) 26} Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.^{(Q) 27} And there were many in Israel with leprosy^[b] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”^(R)

²⁸ All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. ²⁹ They got up, drove him out of the town,^(S) and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. ³⁰ But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.^(T)

Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit^(U)

³¹ Then he went down to Capernaum,^(V) a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. ³² They were amazed at his teaching,^(W) because his words had authority.^(X)

24 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him^(A) because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce,^(B) gives it to her and sends her from his house, ² and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, ³ and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, ⁴ then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord^(C) your God is giving you as an inheritance.

⁵ If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.^(D)

⁶ Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.^(E)

⁷ If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die.^(F) You must purge the evil from among you.^(G)

⁸ In cases of defiling skin diseases,^[a] be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical^(H) priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them.^{(I) 9} Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.^(J)

¹⁰ When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.^{(K) 11} Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. ¹² If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge^(L) in your possession. ¹³ Return their cloak by sunset^(M) so that your neighbor may sleep in it.^(N) Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.^(O)

¹⁴ Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.^{(P) 15} Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor^(Q) and are counting on it.^(R) Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.^(S)

¹⁶ Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.^(T)

¹⁷ Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless^(U) of justice,^(V) or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. ¹⁸ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt^(W) and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

¹⁹ When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.^(X) Leave it for the foreigner,^(Y) the fatherless and the widow,^(Z) so that the Lord your God may bless^(AA) you in all the work of your hands. ²⁰ When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time.^(AB) Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. ²¹ When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. ²² Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.^(AC)