Mat 13:53-58, Luk 4:16-30 | ISV | STEP | Jesus Is Rejected at Nazareth When Jesus had finished these parables, he left that place.

Matthew 13:53-58

53 Jesus Is Rejected at Nazareth Mark 6:1-6; Luke 4:16-30When Jesus had finished these parables, he left that place. 54 He went to his hometown and began teaching the people ^{▼▼Lit. them} in their synagogue in such a way that they were amazed and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miracles?Matt 2:23; Mark 6:1; Luke 4:16, 23 55 This is the builder's ^{▼▼Or carpenter's} son, isn't it? His mother is named Mary, isn't she? His brothers are James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas, aren't they?Isa 49:7; Matt 12:46; Mark 6:3; 15:40; Luke 3:23; John 6:42 56 And his sisters are all with us, aren't they? So where did this man get all these things?” 57 And they were offended by him.

But Jesus told them, “A prophet is without honor only in his hometown and in his own home.”Matt 11:6; Mark 6:3-4; Luke 4:24; John 4:44 58 He did not perform many miracles there because of their unbelief.Mark 6:5-6

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