Luke 4:19–27

¹⁹and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”↗

²⁰He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.↗

²¹He began to tell them,“Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”↗

²²All testified about him and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”↗

²³He said to them,“Doubtless you will tell me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”↗

²⁴He said,“Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.↗

²⁵But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.↗

²⁶Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.↗

²⁷There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”↗