17. When the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him, He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
18. “The Ruach Adonai is on me, because He has anointed me to proclaim Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed,
19. and to proclaim the year of Adonai’s favor.”
20. He closed the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue were focused on Him.
21. Then He began to tell them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ears.”
22. All were speaking well of Him and marveling at the gracious words coming out of His mouth. And they were saying, “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?”
23. But He said to them, “Doubtless you will say to Me this proverb, ‘Doctor, heal yourself!’ and ‘What we have heard was done at Capernaum, do as much here also in your hometown.’”
24. But He said, “Truly, I tell you, ‘No prophet is accepted in his own hometown.’
25. But with all truthfulness I say to you, that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven was closed for three and a half years and there came a great famine over all the land.
26. Elijah was not sent to any of them, but only to Zarephath in the land of Sidon, to a widowed woman.
27. There were many with tza'arat in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them were purified apart from Naaman the Syrian.”
28. Now all in the synagogue were filled with rage upon hearing these things.
29. Rising up, they drove Him out of the town and brought Him as far as the edge of the mountain on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him off the cliff.
30. But passing through the middle of them, He went on His way.
31. Yeshua came down to Capernaum, a town in the Galilee. He was teaching them on Shabbat,
32. and they were astounded at His teaching because His message had authority.
33. In the synagogue was a man who had an unclean demonic spirit, and he cried out with a loud voice,
34. “Ah! What have we to do with You, Yeshua of Natzeret? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are! You are the Holy One of God!”
35. Yeshua rebuked him, saying, “Quiet! Come out of him!” And when the demon threw him down in their midst, it came out without hurting him.