Matthew 13:53-58 - Rejected At Nazareth

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

⁵⁴ And, coming 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 mighty works? ⁵⁵ Is not This the carpenter's 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 were finding in Him occasion to stumble. 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 perform many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

¹ And He went forth thence, and cometh into His own country; and His disciples follow Him. ² And, when the sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many, hearing Him, were astonished, saying, "Whence hath this Man these things?" And, "What is the wisdom which is given to This Man?" And, "Such mighty works are wrought 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 finding occasion of stumbling in 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 there do no mighty work, except that, laying His hands on a few sick people, He healed them. ⁶ And He marvelled because of their unbelief. And He was going round about the villages, teaching.

¹⁶ And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and He went, according to His custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read. ¹⁷ And there was given to Him a book of the prophet Isaiah; and, opening the book, He found the place where it had been written,

¹⁸ "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; because He anointed Me to publish good tidings to the poor; He hath sent Me to proclaim release to captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away the crushed in freedom. ¹⁹ to proclaim an acceptable year of the Lord."

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

²² And all were bearing witness to Him, and were wondering at the words of grace which proceeded out of His mouth; and they said, "Is not this Joseph's Son?"

²³ And He said to them, "Ye will doubtless say to Me this parable, 'Physician, heal Thyself: whatsoever we heard of as done in Capernaum, do also here in Thy own country.'"

²⁴ And He said, "Verily I say to you, 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 Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine upon all the land; ²⁶ and to no one of them was Elijah sent, except to Zarephath in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. ²⁷ "And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and no one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."

²⁸ And all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, on hearing these things; ²⁹ and, rising up, they cast Him forth out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, to throw Him down headlong; ³⁰ but He, passing through their midst, was going His way.