Matthew 13:53-58 - Rejected At Nazareth

⁵³ And when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence:

⁵⁴ and came into his own country, and taught them in their synagogues; so that they were amazed and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom and these powers? ⁵⁵ Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? ⁵⁶ and his sisters, are they not all here among us? from whence then hath this man all these things? ⁵⁷ So they were prejudiced against Him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is no where less honoured than in his own country, and in his own family. ⁵⁸ And he did not many miracles there, because of their unbelief.

¹ And He went out from thence, and came into his own country, and his disciples attended Him: ² and when the sabbath was come, He began to teach in the synagogue: and many that heard Him were astonished, and said, From whence hath He these things? and what is this wisdom which is given unto Him, that even such mighty things are done by his hands? ³ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here among us? and they were prejudiced against Him.

⁴ But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is nowhere less honoured, than in his own country, and among his relations, and his own family. ⁵ And He could do no miracle there, only laying his hands on a few sick people He healed them; ⁶ and He was amazed at their unbelief. But he went about all the villages round, teaching.

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

¹⁸ "The spirit of the Lord is upon me to the end, for which He hath anointed me: He hath sent me to publish good tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to release them that are bruised, ¹⁹ and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."

²⁰ And He folded up the book, and gave it again to the minister, and sat down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon Him. ²¹ And He said unto them, this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

²² And they all bare witness to Him, and wondered at the gracefulness of the words, which proceeded from his mouth, and said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

²³ And He said unto them, No doubt ye will apply to me this proverb, "Physician, cure thyself, and do here in thy own country what we have heard were done at Capernaum."

²⁴ But, said He, indeed I must tell you, that no prophet is well received in his own country. ²⁵ And I assure you, there were many widows in Israel, in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, and there was a great famine through all the land; ²⁶ but Elias was sent to none of those widows, but to a widow-woman at Sarepta in the territory of Sidon. ²⁷ There were also many lepers in Israel, in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed; but Naaman the Syrian was.

²⁸ And all the synagogue were filled with rage, when they heard these things, ²⁹ and they rose up and drove Him out of the city, and dragged Him to the brow of the hill, on which their city was built, in order to throw Him down the precipice. ³⁰ But He passed through the midst of them, and went away.