Why the wrath?

And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. (Luke 4:24-28 ESV)

Everyone has thought the words of Jesus are wonderful, until now. These "sore Spots" in Israel's history have been picked upon. God had chosen to bless someone else instead of us. Why ? Because we would not listen to our own prophets, our hometown boys. They were doing it again. How often do we presume that God owes us, and when someone else, one of "them" gets a blessing, we take offense? Why the wrath? Our own self-righteous pride and refusal to listen.