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In Nazareth, Jesus anticipates their demand for signs and cites examples of Elijah and Elisha helping outsiders (a widow in Sidon and Naaman the Syrian). Luke says the synagogue audience becomes filled with wrath at these words. They drive him out of the town and toward a cliff, but he passes through and goes away (Luke 4:23–30).
23He 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.`"
24He said, "Most assuredly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
25But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
26Elijah was sent to none of them, except only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
27There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."
28They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things;
29and they rose up, and 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.
But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.