22. All were speaking well of him, and were amazed at the gracious words coming out of his mouth. They said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
23. Jesus said to them, “No doubt you will quote to me the proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ and say, ‘What we have heard that you did in Capernaum, do here in your hometown too.’”
24. And he added, “I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
25. But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.
26. Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
27. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
28. When they heard this, all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage.
29. They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.
30. But he passed through the crowd and went on his way.
31. So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.
32. They were amazed at his teaching, because he spoke with authority.
33. Now in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
34. “Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God.”
35. But Jesus rebuked him: “Silence! Come out of him!” Then, after the demon threw the man down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.
36. They were all amazed and began to say to one another, “What’s happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
37. So the news about him spread into all areas of the region.