Luke 4:23-27
Luke 4:23
Then he said, “You will undoubtedly quote me this proverb: ‘Physician, heal yourself’—meaning, ‘Do miracles here in your hometown like those you did in Capernaum.’
Luke 4:24
But I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his own hometown.
Luke 4:25
“Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land.
Luke 4:26
Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
Luke 4:27
And many in Israel had leprosy in the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.”