Bible Verses about โjesus rejected at nazarethโ
The Bible contains 21 verses about jesus rejected at nazareth across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โ"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 brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,โ
โand to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."โ
โHe 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.โ
โThe book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,โ
โHe closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.โ
โHe began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."โ
โThere were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."โ
โHe could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.โ
โIsn'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.โ
โJesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house."โ
โAll testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"โ
โHe 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.'"โ
โHe said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.โ
โBut 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.โ
โElijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.โ
โThey were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.โ
โThey 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.โ
โBut he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.โ
โHe went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.โ
โWhen the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?โ
โHe marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.โ
