in the time of Elijah, when there was no rain for three years
and six months and there came a severe famine over all the land;
004:026 and yet to not one of them was Elijah sent: he was only sent
to a widow at Zarephath in the Sidonian country.
004:027 And there was also many a leper in Israel in the time of
the Prophet Elisha, and yet not one of them was cleansed,
but Naaman the Syrian was."
004:028 Then all in the synagogue, while listening to these words,
were filled with fury.
004:029 They rose, hurried Him outside the town, and brought Him
to the brow of the hill on which their town was built,
to throw Him down the cliff;
004:030 but He passed through the midst of them and went His way.
004:031 So He came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, where He
frequently taught the people on the Sabbath days.
004:032 And they were greatly impressed by His teaching, because He
spoke with the language of authority.
004:033 But in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit
of a foul demon. In a loud voice he cried out,
004:034 "Ha! Jesus the Nazarene, what have you to do with us?
I know who you are--God's Holy One!"
004:035 But Jesus rebuked the demon. "Silence!" He exclaimed;
"come out of him." Upon this, the demon hurled the man
into the midst of them, and came out of him without doing
him any harm.
004:036 All were astonished and awe-struck; and they asked one another,
"What sort of language is this? For with authority and real
power He gives orders to the foul spirits and they come out."
004:037 And the talk about Him spread into every part of
the neighbouring country.