Luke 4:16-30

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Jesus Comes To Nazareth And Reads Isaiah 61:1-2 In The Synagogue

¹⁶ And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought-up. And in accordance with the thing having become-a-custom with him, He entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath, and stood up to read. ¹⁷ And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to Him. And having unrolled the scroll, He found the place where it had been written [in Isa 61:1-2]: ¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because of which He anointed Me to announce-good-news to poor ones. He has sent me out to proclaim a release to captives and recovery-of-sight to blind ones, to send-out with a release ones having been broken^[a], ¹⁹ to proclaim the acceptable^[b] year of the Lord”. ²⁰ And having rolled up the scroll, having given it back to the attendant, He sat-down^[c]. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were looking-intently at Him.

Jesus Says: Today This Scripture Is Fulfilled In Your Ears. They Drive Him Out

²¹ And He began to say to them that “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ears”. ²² And they all were^[d] testifying concerning Him, and marveling at the words of ^[e] grace proceeding from His mouth. And they were saying, “Is not this One Joseph’s son?” ²³ And He said to them, “You will surely speak this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, cure yourself’. Do also here in your hometown all-that we heard having taken place in Capernaum”. ²⁴ But He said, “Truly I say to you that no prophet is acceptable^[f] in his hometown. ²⁵ And I say to you in accordance with [God’s] truth— there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when a great famine took place over all the land. ²⁶ And Elijah was sent to none^[g] of them, except to [the village of] Zarephath of-Sidon, to a widow woman. ²⁷ And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. And none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian”. ²⁸ And they were all filled with fury in the synagogue while hearing these things. ²⁹ And having arisen, they drove Him outside of the city, and led Him up to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built so as to throw Him down the cliff. ³⁰ But He, having gone through the middle of them, was proceeding.