Matthew 13:53-58 - Rejected At Nazareth

⁵³ And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these parables, that he departed thence.

⁵⁴ And having come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and the miracles? ⁵⁵ Is not this the carpenters son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? ⁵⁶ And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? ⁵⁷ And they took offence at him. But 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 work many miracles there, because of their unbelief.

¹ And he went out from thence, and cometh into his own country; and his disciples follow him. ² And when the sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue. And most people when they heard him were astonished, saying, Whence hath this man these things? And what is the wisdom which is given him? And how is it that such miracles are wrought by his hands? ³ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judah, and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they took offence at him.

⁴ And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and among his own kindred, and in his own house. ⁵ And he could not do any miracle there, except that he laid his hand upon a few sick persons, and cured them. ⁶ And he wondered at their want of faith. And he went about the surrounding villages teaching.

¹⁶ And he came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbathday; and stood up to read. ¹⁷ And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Isaiah; and unrolling 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 glad tidings to the poor; he hath sent me to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty the oppressed, ¹⁹ to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

²⁰ And rolling up the book, he gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him. ²¹ And he began to say to them, Today hath this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

²² And they all spoke in his praise, and wondered at the words of grace which proceeded from his mouth; and they said, Is not this Josephs son?

²³ And he said to them, Ye will doubtless say to me this proverb, "Physician, heal thyself;" whatever things we have heard of as having been done in Capernaum, do here too in thy own country.

²⁴ And he said, Truly do I say to you, No prophet is acceptable in his own country. ²⁵ But I tell you in truth, that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; ²⁶ and yet to none of them was Elijah sent, but to Sarepta in Sidonia, to a woman that was a widow. ²⁷ And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.

²⁸ And all in the synagogue, when they heard this, were filled with wrath. ²⁹ And they rose up, and forced him out of the city and took him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, to cast him down headlong; ³⁰ but he, passing through the midst of them, went away.