Luke 4
The Temptation of Jesus
Jesus, full of the Holy
Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the
wilderness for forty days,
being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when
they were completed, he was hungry. The devil said to him, "If
you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."
Jesus answered him,
saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word of God.'"
The devil, leading him
up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a
moment of time. The devil
said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory,
for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want. If you therefore will worship
before me, it will all be yours."
Jesus answered him,
"Get behind me Satan! For it is written, 'You shall
worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you
serve.'"
He led him to
Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him,
"If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here, for it is written,
'He will give his angels charge concerning you, to guard you;'
and,
'On their hands they will bear you up,
lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.'"
Jesus answering, said
to him, "It has been said, 'You shall not tempt the
Lord your God.'"
When the devil had
completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
Jesus returned in the
power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all
the surrounding area. He
taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
He came to Nazareth,
where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. The book of the prophet Isaiah
was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was
written,
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to proclaim release to the captives,
recovering of sight to the blind,
to deliver those who are crushed,
and to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord."
He closed the book,
gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the
synagogue were fastened on him. He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your
hearing."
All testified about
him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth,
and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"
He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal
yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your
hometown.'" He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his
hometown. 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. Elijah was
sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a
woman who was a widow. There were many lepers in Israel
in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed,
except Naaman, the Syrian."
They were all filled
with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things. 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. But he, passing through the midst
of them, went his way.
Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit
He came down to
Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,
and they were astonished
at his teaching, for his word was with authority. In the synagogue there was a man
who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
saying, "Ah! what
have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I
know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"
Jesus rebuked him,
saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"
When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him,
having done him no harm.
Amazement came on all,
and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this
word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and
they come out!" News
about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
Jesus Heals Many
He rose up from the
synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was
afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her. He stood over her, and rebuked
the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
When the sun was setting,
all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and
he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. Demons also came out from many,
crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!"
Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he
was the Christ.
When it was day, he
departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for
him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from
them. But he said to
them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of
God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been
sent." He was
preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
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