^{22 Ref} and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, `Is not this the son of Joseph?'

^{23 Ref} And he said unto them, `Certainly ye will say to me this simile, Physician, heal thyself; as great things as we heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country;'

^{24 Ref} and he said, `Verily I say to you -- No prophet is accepted in his own country;

^{25 Ref} and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,

^{26 Ref} and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but -- to Sarepta of Sidon, unto a woman, a widow;

^{27 Ref} and many lepers were in the time of Elisha the prophet, in Israel, and none of them was cleansed, but -- Naaman the Syrian.'

^{28 Ref} And all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, hearing these things,

^{29 Ref} and having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built -- to cast him down headlong,