Matthew 13:54 Cross References - ISV

⁵⁴ He went to his hometown and began teaching the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were amazed and asked, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miracles?

²² I will declare your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation, I will praise you, saying,

⁹ In the great congregation I have proclaimed the righteous good news. Behold, I did not seal my lips, LORD, as you know. ¹⁰ I have not ignored your righteousness in my heart; instead, I have proclaimed your faithfulness and deliverance. I have not concealed your gracious love and truthfulness from the great congregation.

²³ and settled in a town called Nazareth in order to fulfill what was said by the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”

²³ Jesus Ministers to Many People
Then he went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.

²⁸ When Jesus had finished saying all these things, the crowds were utterly amazed at his teaching,

¹ Jesus is Rejected at Nazareth
Jesus left that place and went back to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. ² When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were utterly amazed. “Where did this man get all these things?” they asked. “What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What great miracles are being done by his hands! ³ This is the builder, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, isn’t it? His sisters are here with us, aren’t they?” And they were offended by him.
⁴ Jesus had been telling them, “A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home.” ⁵ He couldn’t perform a miracle there except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. ⁶ He was amazed at their unbelief. Then he went around to the villages and continued teaching.

¹⁶ Jesus is Rejected at Nazareth
Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read, ¹⁷ the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written, ¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has anointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to set oppressed people free, ¹⁹ and to announce the year of the Lord’s favor.”
²⁰ Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. While the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him, ²¹ he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled, as you’ve heard it read aloud.”
²² All the people began to speak well of him and to wonder at the gracious words that flowed from his mouth. They said, “This is Joseph’s son, isn’t it?”
²³ So he told them, “You will probably quote this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, heal yourself! Do everything here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.’”
²⁴ He added, “I tell all of you with certainty, a prophet is not accepted in his hometown. ²⁵ I’m telling you the truth—there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when it didn’t rain for three years and six months and there was a severe famine everywhere in the land. ²⁶ Yet Elijah wasn’t sent to a single one of those widows except to one at Zarephath in Sidon. ²⁷ There were also many lepers in Israel in the prophet Elisha’s time, yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
²⁸ All the people in the synagogue became furious when they heard this. ²⁹ They got up, forced Jesus out of the city, and led him to the edge of the hill on which their city was built, intending to throw him off. ³⁰ But he walked right through the middle of them and went away.

¹¹ Responses to the WordHe came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

¹⁵ The Jewish leaders were astonished and remarked, “How can this man be so educated when he has never gone to school?”
¹⁶ Jesus replied to them, “My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

¹³ Now when the Jewish leaders saw the boldness of Peter and John and found out that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and realized that they had been with Jesus.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas boldly declared, “We had to speak God’s word to you first, but since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are now going to turn to the gentiles.

¹⁷ Paul in RomeThree days later, Paul called the leaders of the Jews together. When they assembled, he told them, “Brothers, although I haven’t done anything against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans. ¹⁸ They examined me and wanted to let me go because there was no reason for me to receive the death penalty in my case. ¹⁹ But the Jews objected and forced me to appeal to the emperor, even though I have no countercharge to bring against my own people. ²⁰ That’s why I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the hope of Israel that I’m wearing this chain.”
²¹ The Jewish leaders told him, “We haven’t received any letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or mentioned anything bad about you. ²² However, we’d like to hear from you what you believe, because people are talking against this sect everywhere.” ²³ So they set a day to meet with Paul and came out in large numbers to see him where he was staying.
From morning until evening, he continued to explain the kingdom of God to them, trying to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets. ²⁴ Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others wouldn’t believe. ²⁵ They disagreed with one another as they were leaving, so Paul added this statement: “The Holy Spirit was so right when he spoke to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah! ²⁶ He said, ‘Go to this people and say, “You will listen and listen but never understand, and you will look and look but never see! ²⁷ For this people’s minds have become stupid, and their ears can barely hear, and they have shut their eyes so that they may never see with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn and let me heal them.”’
²⁸ You must understand that this message about God’s salvation has been sent to the gentiles, and they will listen.”