Jesus Rejected At Nazareth

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. — read the full passage →

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. — read the full passage →

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

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

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

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

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’”

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

They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works? — read the full passage →

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. — read the full passage →

and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

But he, passing through their midst, went his way.

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. — read the full passage →

He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.

He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound; — read the full passage →

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

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

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

and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.

When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”

He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through their midst, and so passed by.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. — read the full passage →

Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’” — read the full passage →

Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. — read the full passage →

and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’”

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, — read the full passage →

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. — read the full passage →

The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. — read the full passage →

For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

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

But 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. — read the full passage →

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. — read the full passage →

Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. — read the full passage →

As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there. — read the full passage →

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear,the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, — read the full passage →

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?” — read the full passage →

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. — read the full passage →

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

He entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!” — read the full passage →