24 Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. 26 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things. 29 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff. 30 But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

Luke 4:28-30 - World English Bible

In Luke 4, Jesus returned to home to Nazareth, where he proclaimed Isaiah 61:1-2 fulfilled. YHWH had poured his Spirit on him; he would heal the people, deliver the captives and declare a jubilee year. The people, unfortunately, would have none of this.

The passages above listed Jesus' response to their rejection: "A prophet is not welcome in his hometown." To prove his assertion, he recalled the two great prophets of Galilee (Elijah and his successor, Elisha) and their miracles. Elijah performed a small miracle of food for a destitute, but hospitable widow. Of all the lepers in the northern kingdom of Israel, Elisha only cured a foreigner and military foe, Naaman the Syrian. By mentioning these two great men, the Lord drew parallels between their ministry and his. Empowered by the Spirit, they had come to spread God's message through word and deed. In the same way, Jesus claimed the Spirit because of his preaching and healing ministry. The people did not accept his words (and, implicitly, his works); so, as a mob, they tried to kill him. But, his walked through their midst.

People claim to believe in Jesus. Why do they act as if they rejected his message and activity in their lives?