Luke 4:24-44 ▼

24 And He said, "Verily I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

25 But of a truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine upon all the land;

26 and to no one of them was Elijah sent, except to Zarephath in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

27 "And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and no one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."

28 And all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, on hearing these things;

29 and, rising up, they cast Him forth out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, to throw Him down headlong;

30 but He, passing through their midst, was going His way.

31 And He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee; and He was teaching them on the sabbath;

32 and they were astonished at His teaching, because His word was with authority.

33 And in the synagogue there was a man having a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,

34 "Ha! what is there to us and to Thee, Jesus, Nazarene! Didst Thou come to destroy us? I know Thee, Who Thou art, the Holy One of God!"

35 And Jesus rebuked it, saying, "Be silent, and come out from him." And the demon, hurling him into the midst, came out from him, having injured him naught.

36 And amazement came upon all; and they were talking together, one with another, saying, "What is this word, that with authority and power He commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out!"

37 And there was going forth a report concerning Him into every place of the region round about.

38 And, rising up, He went out of the synagogue into the house of Simon. And the mother-in-law of Simon was afflicted with a great fever; and they besought Him concerning her.

39 And, standing over her, He rebuked the fever, and it left her; and, immediately rising up, she was ministering to them.

40 And, as the sun was setting, all, as many as had any ailing with divers diseases, brought them to Him; and He, laying His hands on each one of them, was healing them.

41 And demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "Thou art the Son of God." And, rebuking them, He was not suffering them to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ.

42 And, day coming on, going forth, He went into a desert place; and the multitudes were seeking after Him, and came to Him, and were trying to restrain Him from going away from them.

43 And He said to them, "It is needful that I proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also; because for this I was sent forth."

44 And He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.