[SUP]17 [/SUP]And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
[SUP]18 [/SUP]“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,[SUP][j][/SUP]
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
[SUP]19 [/SUP]To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”[SUP][
k][/SUP]
[SUP]20 [/SUP]Then He closed the book, and gave
it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. [SUP]21 [/SUP]And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” [SUP]22 [/SUP]So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”
[SUP]23 [/SUP]He said to them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum,[SUP][
l][/SUP] do also here in Your country.’” [SUP]24 [/SUP]Then He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. [SUP]25 [/SUP]But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; [SUP]26 [/SUP]but
to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath,[SUP][
m][/SUP]
in the region of Sidon, to a woman
who was a widow. [SUP]27 [/SUP]And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and
none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
[SUP]28 [/SUP]So all those in the synagogue,
when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, [SUP]29 [/SUP]and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. [SUP]30 [/SUP]Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.