Luke 4:23-25

International Standard Version

²³ So he told them, “You will probably quote this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, heal yourself! Do everything here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.’”

²⁴ He added, “I tell all of you^[a] with certainty, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown. ²⁵ I’m telling you the truth—there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when it didn’t rain^[b] for three years and six months and there was a severe famine everywhere in the land.