V. Jesus, the Kingdom, and the Church

The Rejection at Nazareth. ^54 [a]He came to his native place and taught the people in their synagogue.^(A) They were astonished^[b] and said, “Where did this man get such wisdom and mighty deeds?^{(B) 55} Is he not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?^{(C) 56} Are not his sisters all with us? Where did this man get all this?” ⁵⁷ And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house.”^{(D) 58} And he did not work many mighty deeds there because of their lack of faith.

¹⁶ He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom^[a] into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read ¹⁷ and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:

²⁰ Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. ²¹ He said to them, “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”^{[c] 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?”^{(B) 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.’”^{[d] 24} And he said, “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. ^25 [e]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.^{(C) 26 [f]}It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath^(D) 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.”^{(E) 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.