Luke:4:14-30

---

Seeker Overlay ON

* Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee , and news about him spread through all the surrounding area . * He taught in their synagogues , being glorified by all . * He came to Nazareth , where he had been brought up . He entered , as was his custom , into the synagogue on the Sabbath day , and stood up to read . * The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him . He opened the book , and found the place where it was written , * "The Spirit of the Lord is on me , because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor . He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted , {NU omits "to heal the brokenhearted "} to proclaim release to the captives , recovering of sight to the blind , to deliver those who are crushed , * and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord ." {Isaiah strkjv @61:1-2 } * He closed the book , gave it back to the attendant , and sat down . The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him . * He began to tell them , "Today , this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing ." * All testified about him , and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth , and they said , "Isn 't this Joseph 's son ?" * He said to them , "Doubtless you will tell me this parable , 'Physician , heal yourself ! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum , do also here in your hometown .'" * He said , "Most certainly I tell you , no prophet is acceptable in his hometown . * But truly I tell you , there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah , when the sky was shut up three years and six months , when a great famine came over all the land . * Elijah was sent to none of them , except to Zarephath , in the land of Sidon , to a woman who was a widow . * There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet , yet not one of them was cleansed , except Naaman , the Syrian ." * They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue , as they heard these things . * They rose up , threw him out of the city , and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on , that they might throw him off the cliff . * But he , passing through their midst , went his way .

---