23. Jesus said, "Here is a saying you will certainly apply to me. 'Doctor, heal yourself! Do the things here in your hometown that we heard you did in Capernaum.' "
24. "What I'm about to tell you is true," he continued. "A prophet is not accepted in his hometown.
25. I tell you for sure that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah. And there had been no rain for three and a half years. There wasn't enough food to eat anywhere in the land.
26. But Elijah was not sent to any of those widows. Instead, he was sent to a widow in Zarephath near Sidon.
27. And there were many in Israel who had skin diseases in the days of Elisha the prophet. But not one of them was healed except Naaman the Syrian."
28. All the people in the synagogue were very angry when they heard that.
29. They got up and ran Jesus out of town. They took him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They planned to throw him down the cliff.
30. But Jesus walked right through the crowd and went on his way.
31. Then Jesus went to Capernaum, a town in Galilee. On the Sabbath day he began to teach the people.
32. They were amazed at his teaching, because his message had authority.
33. In the synagogue there was a man controlled by a demon, an evil spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice.