Matthew 13:53-58 - Rejected At Nazareth

⁵³ When Jesus had finished these figures, he left that place,

⁵⁴ and went to his own part of the country. And he taught the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were astonished, and said, "Where did he get this wisdom, and the power to do these wonders? ⁵⁵ Is he not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother named Mary, and are not his brothers named James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? ⁵⁶ And do not all his sisters live here among us? Then where did he get all this?" ⁵⁷ And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and at his home." ⁵⁸ And he did not do many wonders there, because of their want of faith.

¹ Leaving there he went, followed by his disciples, to his own part of the country. ² When the Sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were astonished when they heard him, and said, "Where did he get all this? How does he come to have such wisdom? How are such marvelous things done through him? ³ Is he not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?"

⁴ And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and among his relatives and at his home." ⁵ He could not do any wonder there, except that he put his hands on a few sick people and cured them. ⁶ And he wondered at their want of faith. Then he went around among the villages teaching.

¹⁶ And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures. ¹⁷ And the roll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and he unrolled it and found the place where it says,

¹⁸ "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty, ¹⁹ To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor!"

²⁰ And he rolled up the roll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed upon him. ²¹ And he began by saying to them, "This passage of Scripture has been fulfilled here in your hearing today!"

²² And they all spoke well of him and were astonished at the winning words that fell from his lips, and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son?"

²³ He said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to me: 'Doctor, cure yourself! Do the things here in your own country that we hear you did at Capernaum.'

²⁴ I tell you," said he, "no prophet is welcome in his own country. ²⁵ But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land, ²⁶ and Elijah was not sent to one of them, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. ²⁷ And there were plenty of lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cured, but Naaman the Syrian."

²⁸ And when the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all very angry, ²⁹ and they got up and drove him out of the town and took him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, intending to throw him down from it. ³⁰ But he made his way through the midst of them and went on.