And he came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and followed his custom of attending synagogue on the Sabbaths.  He stood to read as they gave him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He opened the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to evangelize the poor. He has sent me to proclaim the release of the captives, recovered sight to the blind, liberation to the crushed ones, and the year of the Lord’s acceptance.” After closing the scroll, he returned it to the attendant and sat down.

And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say to them, “Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears.” And everyone was shocked and amazed at the gracious words which he spoke. And they said, “Isn’t this Joseph's son?”

And he said to them, “To be sure, you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself. The things we’ve heard happening in Capernaum, do here, too.’ But I truthfully say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country.

“I tell you the truth, many widows were in Israel in Elijah’s time—when it didn’t rain for three and a half years, bring a great famine throughout all the land—but Elijah was sent to none of them. Rather, he was sent to Sarepta, a city of Sidon, to a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha, the prophet, but none of them were cleansed, other than Naaman the Syrian.”

And everyone in the synagogue, when they heard this, were enraged. They jumped up and dragged him out of the city, taking him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built to throw him off the cliff. But he passed through the crowd and went away, leaving for Capernaum, a city of Galilee…