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Luke 4:23-28 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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 home town that you heard I did in Capernaum.

24. But you can be sure that no prophets are liked by the people of their own home town.

25. 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. but Elijah was sent only to a widow in the town of Zarephath near the city of Sidon.

27. During the time of the prophet Elisha, many men in Israel had leprosy. But no one was healed, except Naaman who lived in Syria.

28. When the people in the meeting place heard Jesus say this, they became so angry

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