# Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

Life of Jesus · Draft · BSB

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Date: Preparation and early ministry. A guided comparison of Gospel accounts, not a measured calendar or a claim that every parallel follows the same sequence.

At Nazareth Jesus reads Isaiah and announces its fulfillment. The congregation’s response turns hostile when he invokes Elijah’s widow and Elisha’s Syrian recipient of healing, and he passes through the crowd.

Luke’s scene already refers to reports from Capernaum, although his detailed Capernaum narrative follows. Its placement is part of Luke’s presentation; this harmony does not prove two historically separate hometown rejections.

## Primary Scripture

[Luke 4:16–30 (BSB)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204%3A16%E2%80%9330&version=BSB)

4:16 Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,

4:17 the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:

4:18 “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 proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

4:19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

4:20 Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,

4:21 and He began by saying, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

4:22 All spoke well of Him and marveled at the gracious words that came from His lips. “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?” they asked.

4:23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”

4:24 Then He added, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

4:25 But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

4:26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.

4:27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

4:28 On hearing this, all the people in the synagogue were enraged.

4:29 They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.

4:30 But Jesus passed through the crowd and went on His way.

## Related Scripture

[Isaiah 61:1–2 · teaching](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2061%3A1%E2%80%932&version=BSB)

The Isaiah reading provides the language of good news and release.

## Location evidence

Luke explicitly names Nazareth and its synagogue. The locality is secure; an exact ancient building or cliff is not located here.

Event map marker: Identified site; \[longitude, latitude\] = \[35.30153, 32.70675\]. This is a teaching marker, not an exact event venue.

Nazareth: Identified site. Coordinates \[longitude, latitude\]: \[35.30153, 32.70675\]. Classification source: rule.

[Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire](http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/22899)

[Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire](http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/22899)

## For the class

Why do the examples of the widow and Naaman become a point of conflict?

## Interpretation and reuse

Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.

Record source: theographic (280)

Record source: editorial

Events and places adapted from Theographic Bible Metadata (github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata), CC BY-SA 4.0. This adapted data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.

Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.

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