22. And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They also asked, “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?”
23. He said to them, “Surely you will quote me this proverb, ‘Physician, cure yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native place the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.’”
24. And he said, “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.
25. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land.
26. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
27. Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”
28. When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury.
29. They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong.
30. But he passed through the midst of them and went away.
31. Jesus then went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee. He taught them on the sabbath,
32. and they were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority.
33. In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice,
34. “Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”
35. Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet! Come out of him!” Then the demon threw the man down in front of them and came out of him without doing him any harm.
36. They were all amazed and said to one another, “What is there about his word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.”