30/08/2026
Monday, 31st August
Luke 4:16-30
Word of God
He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
โThe Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
๏ฟฝHe has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
to proclaim the year of the Lordโs favour.โ
Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, โToday this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.โ
All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. โIsnโt this Josephโs son?โ they asked.
Jesus said to them, โSurely you will quote this proverb to me: โPhysician, heal yourself!โ And you will tell me, โDo here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.โโ
โTruly I tell you,โ he continued, โno prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijahโs time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansedโonly Naaman the Syrian.โ
All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.
They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff.
But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.
The word of the Lord,
thanks be to God.
Amen ๐๐ผ
