Mar 6:1-6, Luk 4:16-30 | ISV | STEP | Jesus Is Rejected at Nazareth Jesus left that place and went back to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

Mark 6:1-6

1 Jesus Is Rejected at Nazareth Matthew 13:53-58; Luke 4:16-30

Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. He} left that place and went back to his hometown, ^{▼▼I.e. Nazareth} and his disciples followed him.Matt 13:54; Luke 4:16 2 When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were utterly amazed. They said, “Where did this man get all these things? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What great miracles are being done by his hands!John 6:42 3 This is the builder, ^{▼▼Or carpenter} the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, isn't it? His sisters are here with us, aren't they?” And they were offended by him.Matt 11:6; 12:46; Gal 1:19

4 Jesus was telling them, “A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home.”Matt 13:57; John 4:44 5 He couldn't perform a miracle there except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.Gen 19:22; 32:25; Matt 13:58; Mark 9:23 6 He was utterly amazed at their unbelief. Then he went around to the villages and continued teaching.Isa 59:16; Matt 9:35; Luke 13:22

Luke 4:16-30

16 Jesus Is Rejected at Nazareth Matthew 13:53-58; Mark 6:1-6Then Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. he} came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read,Matt 2:23; 13:54; Mark 6:1; Acts 13:14; 17:2 17 the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written,

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,Isa 61:1

because he has anointed me to tell

the good news to the poor.

He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners

and recovery of sight to the blind,

to set oppressed people free,

19 and to announce the year of the Lord's favor.” ^{▼▼Isa 61:1-2; 58:6}

20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 Then he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

22 All the people began to speak well of him and to wonder at the gracious words that flowed from his mouth. They said, “This is Joseph's son, isn't it?”Ps 45:2; Matt 13:54; Mark 6:2; Luke 2:47; John 6:42

23 So he said to them, “You will probably quote this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, heal yourself! Do all the things here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.’”Matt 4:13; 11:23; 13:54; Mark 6:1 24 He added, “Truly I tell you, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown.Matt 13:57; Mark 6:4; John 4:44 25 In truth I tell you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the heaven was closed for three years and six months and there was a severe famine everywhere in the land.1Kings 17:9; 18:1; James 5:17 26 Yet Elijah wasn't sent to a single one of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27 There were also many lepers in Israel in the prophet Elisha's time, yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”2Kings 5:14

28 All the people in the synagogue became furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, forced Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. him} out of the city, and led him to the edge of the hill on which their city was built, intending to throw him off of it. 30 But he walked right through the middle of them and went away.John 8:59; 10:39