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Luke 4:21-32
Contemporary English Version
Luke 4:21-32
Contemporary English Version
21 Then Jesus said to them, “What you have just heard me read has come true today.”
22 All the people started talking about Jesus and were amazed at the wonderful things he said. They kept on asking, “Isn't he Joseph's son?”
23 Jesus answered:
You will certainly want to tell me this saying, “Doctor, first make yourself well.” You will tell me to do the same things here in my own hometown that you heard I did in Capernaum. 24 (A) But you can be sure that no prophets are liked by the people of their own hometown.
25 (B) Once during the time of Elijah there was no rain for three and a half years, and people everywhere were starving. There were many widows in Israel, 26 (C) but Elijah was sent only to a widow in the town of Zarephath near the city of Sidon. 27 (D) During the time of the prophet Elisha, many men in Israel had leprosy.[a] But no one was healed, except Naaman who lived in Syria.
28 When the people in the synagogue heard Jesus say this, they became so angry 29 that they got up and threw him out of town. They dragged him to the edge of the cliff on which the town was built, because they wanted to throw him down from there. 30 But Jesus slipped through the crowd and got away.
A Man with an Evil Spirit
(Mark 1.21-28)
31 Jesus went to the town of Capernaum in Galilee and taught the people on the Sabbath. 32 (E) His teaching amazed them because he spoke with power.
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- 4.27 leprosy: In biblical times the word “leprosy” was used for many different kinds of skin diseases.
Luke 4:21-32
New International Version
Luke 4:21-32
New International Version
21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled(A) in your hearing.”
22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.(B)
23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown(C) what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”(D)
24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.(E) 25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.(F) 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.(G) 27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy[a] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”(H)
28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town,(I) and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. 30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.(J)
Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit(K)
31 Then he went down to Capernaum,(L) a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. 32 They were amazed at his teaching,(M) because his words had authority.(N)
Footnotes
- Luke 4:27 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
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