Luke 4:24
Good News Translation
24 (A)I tell you this,” Jesus added, “prophets are never welcomed in their hometown.
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Luke 4:24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
24 And he said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.(A)
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Luke 4:24
Complete Jewish Bible
24 Yes!” he said, “I tell you that no prophet is accepted in his home town.
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Luke 4:24-27
The Message
23-27 He answered, “I suppose you’re going to quote the proverb, ‘Doctor, go heal yourself. Do here in your hometown what we heard you did in Capernaum.’ Well, let me tell you something: No prophet is ever welcomed in his hometown. Isn’t it a fact that there were many widows in Israel at the time of Elijah during that three and a half years of drought when famine devastated the land, but the only widow to whom Elijah was sent was in Sarepta in Sidon? And there were many lepers in Israel at the time of the prophet Elisha but the only one cleansed was Naaman the Syrian.”
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