Luke 4:24-44 ▼

24 but in truth, added he, no prophet was ever well received in his own country.

25 I assure you, though there were many widows in Israel, when the heaven had furnished no rain for three years and a half, and a great famine spread through all the land:

26 yet to none of them was Elias sent, except to one widow in Sarepta, a city of Sidon.

27 and there were many lepers in the time of Elisha the prophet: yet none of them obtain'd a cure, except Naaman the Syrian.

28 upon hearing this, the whole synagogue were incensed against him.

29 and breaking up the assembly, they drove him out of the city, to the precipice of the hill, upon which it was built, in order to throw him headlong down.

30 but he pass'd thro' the midst of them and went away.

31 At length he went to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath-days.

32 and they were astonished at his doctrine, for he spoke with authority.

33 now there was in the synagogue a man possess'd with the spirit of an impure demon, who roar'd out, in these words, let us alone;

34 what business have you with us, Jesus of Nazareth? are you come to destroy us? I know who you are; the saint of God.

35 but Jesus rebuk'd him, saying, be dumb, and come out of him, upon which the demon threw him down in the midst of the assembly, and came out, without doing him any harm.

36 and they were all amazed, and said to one another, what's the meaning of this? with authority and power he commands the impure spirits, and they come out!

37 and his fame spread through all the neighbouring country.

38 When Jesus came out of the synagogue, he went to Simon's house, whose mother-in-law was seized with a violent fever, and they desired him to relieve her.

39 so approaching near her, he order'd the fever to leave her, and it left her, upon which she immediately arose, and waited upon them at table.

40 As soon as the sun was set, all sorts of diseased persons were brought before him by their friends, and he healed them all, by laying his hands upon them.

41 many were dispossess'd of the demons, who cried aloud, you are the Messiah, the son of God, but he rebuked them, and would not suffer them to declare, that they knew him to be the Messiah.

42 When it was day, he retired into a desart place, where the people searching for him, found him out, and as they earnestly press'd him not to leave them,

43 he said to them, I must likewise proclaim the kingdom of God in other cities; for to that end am I sent.

44 accordingly he went preaching in the synagogues through all Galilee.