22. They were all speaking well of Him and were amazed by the gracious words that came from His mouth, yet they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son? ”
23. Then He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. So all we’ve heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in Your hometown also.’ ”
24. He also said, “I assure you: No prophet is accepted in his hometown.
25. But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.
26. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them — but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
27. And in the prophet Elisha’s time, there were many in Israel who had serious skin diseases, yet not one of them was healed — only Naaman the Syrian.”
28. When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged.
29. They got up, drove Him out of town, and brought Him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl Him over the cliff.
30. But He passed right through the crowd and went on His way.
31. Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath.
32. They were astonished at His teaching because His message had authority.
33. In the synagogue there was a man with an unclean demonic spirit who cried out with a loud voice,