23 Then He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb[a] to Me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself. So all we’ve heard that took place in Capernaum,(A) do here in Your hometown also.’”

24 He also said, “I assure you: No prophet is accepted in his hometown.(B) 25 But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days,(C) when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:23 Or parable

23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown(A) what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”(B)

24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.(C) 25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.(D)

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