16 When he got to Nazareth where he grew up, he went into the meeting hall as usual on the Rest Day and stood up to do the reading. 17 The scroll of the prophet Isayah was handed to him, and opening up the scroll, he found the place where it was written,

18 [ref]“Yahweh’s spirit is on me,

because he has chosen and equipped me

to preach the good message to the poor.

He has sent me out to proclaim freedom for captives

and to restore sight to the blind,

and for the oppressed to experience freedom.

19 He’s sent me to proclaim that this is the year that Yahweh has chosen.”

20 Then after rolling up the scroll and giving it back to the attendant, he sat down to give his commentary and every person in the room was studying him 21 as he began to speak, “Today this scripture that you’ve just heard has been fulfilled.”

22 Later everyone was telling others about him, and they were marvelling at his messages displaying God’s grace, and they asked each other, “Isn’t this Yosef’s son from down the road?”

23 Then Yeshua answered them, “I’m sure you’ll all be telling me that parable about the doctor who needed to heal himself, because you’ll be wanting me to do here in my hometown what I did in Capernaum. 24 [ref]I can assure you all that no prophet is accepted by his own hometown. 25 [ref]There were certainly many widows in Israel in the days of Eliyah when God stopped the rain for three and a half years and caused a terrible famine. 26 [ref]But Eliyah wasn’t sent to any of them—rather he was sent to a foreign widow in Zarephath in the Tsidon region. 27 [ref]“Also there were many people in Israel with leprosy in the days of the prophet Elisha and none of them were healed, but only Naaman from Syria.”

28 By now everyone in the meeting hall that heard this was furious 29 and they all stood up, planning to throw him out of the city. They led him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to throw him over the edge, 30 but somehow he just moved through the middle of them and left.