In this week's edition of There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye, Jill
Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Fourth
Sunday in Ordinary Time. Listen: GospelLk
4:21-30
Jesus began speaking in the synagogue, saying: “Today this
Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke highly of him and
were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They also asked, “Isn’t
this the son of Joseph?” He said to them, “Surely you will quote me this proverb, ‘Physician,
cure yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native place the things that we heard
were done in Capernaum.’” And he said, “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted
in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel
in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and
a severe famine spread over the entire land. It was to none of these that Elijah
was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. Again, there
were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one
of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” When the people in the synagogue
heard this, they were all filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of the
town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to
hurl him down headlong. But Jesus passed through the midst of them and went away.