Jesus is Rejected at Nazareth^(A)

¹⁶ Then Jesus^[a] came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read, ¹⁷ the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written,

²⁰ Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. While the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him, ²¹ he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled, as you’ve heard it read aloud.”^[e]

²² All the people began to speak well of him and to wonder at the gracious words that flowed from his mouth. They said, “This is Joseph’s son, isn’t it?”

²³ So he told them, “You will probably quote this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, heal yourself! Do everything here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.’”

²⁴ He added, “I tell all of you^[f] with certainty, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown. ²⁵ I’m telling you the truth—there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when it didn’t rain^[g] for three years and six months and there was a severe famine everywhere in the land. ²⁶ Yet Elijah wasn’t sent to a single one of those widows except to one at Zarephath in Sidon. ²⁷ There were also many lepers in Israel in the prophet Elisha’s time, yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

²⁸ All the people in the synagogue became furious when they heard this. ²⁹ They got up, forced Jesus^[h] out of the city, and led him to the edge of the hill on which their city was built, intending to throw him off. ³⁰ But he walked right through the middle of them and went away.