He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor.
And he said, "Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place…
When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. (Lk 4:16-30)
Jesus lives like the people of the place. He falls into the custom of the people and his own custom. He was like anyone of his place. Only difference is that he said that what he read was fulfilled in him. People also expected that it should be fulfilled. But the people were not able to see that it was fulfilled in Jesus, a man from Nazareth. People accepted the word of God and they wanted it to be fulfilled. They also accepted Jesus as a man from Nazareth. But they could not accept that the word of God was fulfilled in Jesus.
Jesus gives an explanation for this attitude of the people. He said that no prophet was accepted in his own native place. He pulls out examples from the Bible in the persons of Prophets: Elijah and Elisha. These two were not accepted by the people of their time. They were able to do their ministry for the foreigners only. By giving these examples Jesus telling them indirectly that the scriptures are fulfilled in him (he is like the prophets).
His ministry is for the poor, the suffering, the neglected, and the marginalized (the foreigners in their own land). So through his ministry Jesus fulfils the ministry of the prophets. The scriptures are fulfilled in him. People expect his miracles and they want him to do the same for them but they refuse to accept that the scriptures are fulfilled.
