Read Luke 4:21-30

Friday

Read Luke 4:21-30

²¹as he said to them, “This passage of scripture has come true today, as you heard it being read.”

22 They were all well impressed with him and marvelled at the eloquent words that he spoke. They said, “Isn’t he the son of Joseph?”

23 He said to them, “I am sure that you will quote this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, heal yourself.’ You will also tell me to do here in my home town the same things you heard were done in Capernaum. ²⁴I tell you this,” Jesus added, “prophets are never welcomed in their home town.

25 “Listen to me: it is true that there were many widows in Israel during the time of Elijah, when there was no rain for three and a half years and a severe famine spread throughout the whole land. ²⁶Yet Elijah was not sent to anyone in Israel, but only to a widow living in Zarephath in the territory of Sidon. ²⁷And there were many people suffering from a dreaded skin disease who lived in Israel during the time of the prophet Elisha; yet not one of them was healed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”

28 When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were filled with anger. ²⁹They rose up, dragged Jesus out of the town, and took him to the top of the hill on which their town was built. They meant to throw him over the cliff, ³⁰but he walked through the middle of the crowd and went his way.

Think

The crowd that listens to Jesus goes from amazed to furious in a few seconds.  It seems that he won't do what they want him to do; it seems they might not like everything that he is said.  He tells the story of how when Israel rejected God Elijah was sent to a gentile woman.

Pray

Lord when you speak to me help me not to get angry about what you say.