Matthew 13:53-58 - Rejected At Nazareth

⁵³ And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these parables, He departed thence.

⁵⁴ And having come into His own country He was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Whence this wisdom and these miracles unto Him? ⁵⁵ Is not He the son of the carpenter? is not His mother called Mary? are not His brothers, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? ⁵⁶ And are not His sisters all here with us? Whence then are these things to Him? ⁵⁷ And they were offended in Him. And Jesus said to them; A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house. ⁵⁸ And He did not many mighty works there on account of their unbelief.

¹ And He came out thence and comes into His own country; and His disciples follow Him: ² and it being the Sabbath day, He began to preach in the synagogue: and many hearing were astonished, saying, Whence are these things to this one? and, What wisdom is given unto Him? Such miracles are wrought by His hands. ³ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary? the brother of James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? Are not His sisters here with us? And they were offended in Him.

⁴ And Jesus said to them; A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and among his relatives, and in his own house. ⁵ And He was not able to do any miracle there, except laying hands on a few sick people, He healed them. ⁶ And He was astonished on account of their unbelief.And He went about the villages in a circuit teaching.

¹⁶ And He came into Nazareth, where He was brought up: and according to the custom to Him, He came into the synagogue on the Sabbath-day, and stood up to read. ¹⁷ And the Book of Isaiah the prophet was given to Him; and having opened the book, He found the place where it was written,

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised, ¹⁹ to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

²⁰ And having closed the book, and giving it back to the officer, He sat down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on Him. ²¹ And He began to say to them; This day has this Scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

²² And they all continued to witness to Him, and wonder at the words of grace proceeding out from His mouth: and say, Is not this the son of Joseph?

²³ And He said to them, You truly speak to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself: so many things as we heard having been done in Capernaum, do also here in thy own country.

²⁴ And He said, Truly I say unto you, that no prophet is acceptable in his own country. ²⁵ And in truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah. When the heaven was shut up three years and six months, how the famine was great over all the land; ²⁶ and Elijah was sent to none of them, except to a widow woman in Sarepta of Sidon. ²⁷ And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha; and none of them were cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.

²⁸ And all in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled with wrath. ²⁹ And rising up, they cast Him out of the city, and were leading Him to the brink of the mountain on which their city was built, to hurl Him down; ³⁰ and He having passed through the midst of them went away.