Matthew 13:53-58 - Rejected At Nazareth

⁵³ And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these parables he withdrew thence.

⁵⁴ And having come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Whence has this man this wisdom and these works of power? ⁵⁵ Is not this the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? ⁵⁶ And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then has this man all these things? ⁵⁷ And they were offended in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honour, unless in his country and in his house. ⁵⁸ And he did not there many works of power, because of their unbelief.

¹ And he went out thence and came to his own country, and his disciples follow him. ² And when sabbath was come he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing were amazed, saying, Whence has this man these things? and what is the wisdom that is given to him, and such works of power are done by his hands? ³ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended in him.

⁴ But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not despised save in his own country, and among his kinsmen, and in his own house. ⁵ And he could not do any work of power there, save that laying his hands on a few infirm persons he healed them. ⁶ And he wondered because of their unbelief. And he went round the villages in a circuit, teaching.

¹⁶ And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he entered, according to his custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read. ¹⁷ And the book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and having unrolled the book he found the place where it was written,

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to the blind sight, to send forth the crushed delivered, ¹⁹ to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

²⁰ And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him. ²¹ And he began to say to them, To-day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.

²² And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

²³ And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.

²⁴ And he said, Verily I say to you, that 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 Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land, ²⁶ and to none of them was Elias sent but to Sarepta of Sidonia, to a woman that was a widow. ²⁷ And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.

²⁸ And they were all filled with rage in the synagogue, hearing these things; ²⁹ and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, so that they might throw him down the precipice; ³⁰ but he, passing through the midst of them, went his way,