Luke 4:23
Jesus answered. "Doubtless you will quote the proverb to me, "Physician, heal thyself! Do also here in your own country all that we hear that you have done in Capernaum."
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
24"I tell you in solemn truth," he added, "that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.
Cross References
Matthew 4:13He left Nazareth, and settled in Capernaum-by-the-Lake, near the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali,
Matthew 11:23"And you too, Capernaum! Will you be exalted even to heaven? You shall go down to the Place of Death! For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which have been done in you, it would have remained until this day.
Mark 1:21So they came to Capernaum, and as soon as the Sabbath Day came he went into the synagogue and began to teach.
Mark 6:1Jesus left that place, and accompanied by his disciples, came into his own part of the country.
Luke 6:42"Or how can you say to your brother. "Brother, allow me to pull that splinter out of your eye," when you do not see the beam in your own eye? Hypocrite! Take out first the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the splinter from your brother’s eye.
John 4:28Then the woman left her water-jar, and went away into the city and began saying to the people.
Matthew Henry on Luke 4:15-31
Christ in the Synagogue of Nazareth; Christ Driven from Nazareth. 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he… Read the whole commentary →