Luke 4:21-30
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And he began to say to them, "Today h this Scripture i has been fulfilled in your hearing."
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And all spoke well of him and marveled at j the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, k "Is not this l Joseph's son?"
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And he said to them, "Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, m 'Physician, heal yourself.' What we have heard you did n at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well."
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And he said, "Truly, I say to you, o no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
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But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when p the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,
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and Elijah was sent to none of them q but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
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And r there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, s but only Naaman the Syrian."
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When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.
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And they rose up and t drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.
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But u passing through their midst, he went away.
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Mark 12:10
Have you not read this Scripture: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Acts 8:35
Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.
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Matthew 1:22
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
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Psalms 45:2
You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.
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Matthew 13:55
Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
John 6:42
They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven' ?
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Luke 3:23
Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli.
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Luke 23:39
One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!
Matthew 27:42
He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
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Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Mark 2:1 - 12
And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home.
John 4:46 - 53
So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.
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Matthew 13:57
And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.
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1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.
1 Kings 18:1
After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.
James 5:17
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
Revelation 11:6
They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.
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1 Kings 17:9
"Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you."
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2 Kings 7:3
Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, "Why are we sitting here until we die?
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2 Kings 5:1 - 14
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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Numbers 15:35
And the Lord said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.
Acts 7:58
Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
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John 8:59
So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.
John 10:39
Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.
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