 and not the Israelites, although there was leprosy among the Israelites. He didn't have to tell them anymore. The imagery was there. They felt that he was comparing them to the people that lived in that very same locale hundreds of years before. Verse 28, "'And they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath. They rose up and thrust him out of the city, led him onto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down.'"