Luke 4:28

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In the synagogue at Nazareth Jesus has read from Isaiah and announced that the Scripture is fulfilled. He then reminds them that God's mercy in the past reached foreigners: a widow in Sidon and a leper from Syria.

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Luke 4:25But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.
1 Kings 17:9“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
2 Kings 5:14So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

On hearing this, all the people in the synagogue were enraged.

World English Bible (WEB)

They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

King James Version (KJV)

And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

American Standard Version (ASV)

And they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things;

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

And all who were in the Synagogue were very angry when these things were said to them.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

And all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, hearing these things,

Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)

Entonces todos en la sinagoga fueron llenos de ira, oyendo estas cosas;

Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)

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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)

Al oír esto, todos los que estaban en la sinagoga se pusieron furiosos,

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Luke 4:28

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