4:16 Now 1 Jesus 2 came to Nazareth, 3 where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue 4 on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. 5 He 6 stood up to read, 7 4:17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He 8 unrolled 9 the scroll and found the place where it was written,
4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed 10 me to proclaim good news 11 to the poor. 12
He has sent me 13 to proclaim release 14 to the captives
and the regaining of sight 15 to the blind,
to set free 16 those who are oppressed, 17
4:19 to proclaim the year 18 of the Lord’s favor.” 19
4:20 Then 20 he rolled up 21 the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on 22 him. 4:21 Then 23 he began to tell them, “Today 24 this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.” 25 4:22 All 26 were speaking well of him, and were amazed at the gracious words coming out of his mouth. They 27 said, “Isn’t this 28 Joseph’s son?” 4:23 Jesus 29 said to them, “No doubt you will quote to me the proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ 30 and say, ‘What we have heard that you did in Capernaum, 31 do here in your hometown too.’” 4:24 And he added, 32 “I tell you the truth, 33 no prophet is acceptable 34 in his hometown. 4:25 But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, 35 when the sky 36 was shut up three and a half years, and 37 there was a great famine over all the land. 4:26 Yet 38 Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 39 4:27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, 40 yet 41 none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” 42 4:28 When they heard this, all the people 43 in the synagogue were filled with rage. 4:29 They got up, forced 44 him out of the town, 45 and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that 46 they could throw him down the cliff. 47 4:30 But he passed through the crowd 48 and went on his way. 49