Luke 4

¹Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness.

²for forty days being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days, and when they were ended he was hungry.

³And the devil said to him, 'If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.'

⁴And Jesus answered him, saying, 'It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone.'

⁵Then the devil led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited world in a moment of time.

⁶And the devil said to him, 'All this authority and their glory I will give to you, for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.'

⁷If you then will worship before me, all of it will be yours.'

⁸And Jesus answered him, 'It is written, The Lord your God you shall worship, and him only you shall serve.'

⁹Then he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, 'If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,'

¹⁰for it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,'

¹¹and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.''

¹²And Jesus answered him, 'It is said, You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'

¹³And when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.

¹⁴And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report went out through all the surrounding region about him.

¹⁵He was teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

¹⁶And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day according to his custom, and stood up to read.

¹⁷And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and having unrolled the scroll he found the place where it was written,

¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

¹⁹to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.'

²⁰Then he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

²¹And he began to say to them, 'Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.'

²²And all were bearing witness to him and marveling at the gracious words proceeding from his mouth, and they were saying, 'Is not this the son of Joseph?'

²³And he said to them, 'Surely you will say to me this proverb, Physician, heal yourself — whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.'

²⁴And he said, 'Truly I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.'

²⁵But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when a great famine came upon all the land,

²⁶and Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath of Sidon, to a widow woman.

²⁷And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.'

²⁸And all in the synagogue were filled with rage when they heard these things.

²⁹They rose up and drove him out of the city and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, so as to throw him down the cliff.

³⁰But he, passing through their midst, went on his way.

³¹And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and he was teaching them on the Sabbaths.

³²and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

³³And in the synagogue there was a man having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

³⁴saying, 'Ha! What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — the Holy One of God.'

³⁵And Jesus rebuked him, saying, 'Be silent and come out of him!' And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, it came out of him, having done him no harm.

³⁶And astonishment came upon all, and they were speaking to one another, saying, 'What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!'

³⁷And a report about him was spreading into every place of the surrounding region.

³⁸And rising up from the synagogue he entered the house of Simon. Now Simon's mother-in-law was seized with a high fever, and they appealed to him for her.

³⁹And standing over her he rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she rose up and was serving them.

⁴⁰Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.

⁴¹And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, 'You are the Son of God!' And rebuking them he would not allow them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

⁴²Now when day came, he went out and went to a desolate place, and the crowds were seeking him and came to him and were trying to hold him back so that he would not go away from them.

⁴³But he said to them, 'I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, for I was sent for this purpose.'

⁴⁴And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.