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Luke 4:23-27

Luke 4:23

So he said to them, “You’ll probably quote this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, cure yourself!’ and then say to me, ‘Do all the things in your hometown that we’ve heard you’ve done in Capernaum.’ ”

Luke 4:24

Then Jesus added, “I can guarantee this truth: A prophet isn’t accepted in his hometown.

Luke 4:25

“I can guarantee this truth: There were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time. It had not rained for three-and-a-half years, and the famine was severe everywhere in the country.

Luke 4:26

But God didn’t send Elijah to anyone except a widow at Zarephath in the territory of Sidon.

Luke 4:27

There were also many people with skin diseases in Israel in the prophet Elisha’s time. But God cured no one except Naaman from Syria.”