Luke 4

¹Then Jesus, full of [the] Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

²[where for] forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and [when] they had ended, He was hungry.

³The devil said to Him, “If You are [the] Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

⁴But Jesus answered, “It is written:‘ Man shall not live on bread alone.’

⁵Then [the devil] led Him up to a high place [and] showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

⁶“I will give You authority over all [these kingdoms] and [all] their glory,” [he] said. “For it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.

⁷So if You worship me, it will all be Yours.”

⁸But Jesus answered, “It is written:‘ Worship [the] Lord your God and serve Him only.’

⁹Then [the devil] led Him to Jerusalem and set [Him] on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are [the] Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down from here.

¹⁰For it is written:‘ He will command His angels concerning You to guard You carefully,

¹¹and they will lift You [up] in [their] hands, so that {You will} not strike Your foot against a stone.’”

¹²But Jesus answered, “It [also] says,‘ Do not put [the] Lord your God {to the test}.’

¹³When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

¹⁴Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and [the] news about Him spread throughout the surrounding region.

¹⁵He taught in their synagogues and was glorified by everyone.

¹⁶Then [Jesus] came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And [when] He stood up to read,

¹⁷[the] scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling [it], He found the place where it was written:

¹⁸“[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 proclaim liberty to [the] captives and recovery of sight to [the] blind, to release [the] oppressed,

¹⁹to proclaim [the] year of [the] Lord’s favor.”</span>

²⁰Then He rolled up the scroll, returned [it] to the attendant, [and] sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,

²¹and He began by saying, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.

²²All spoke well of Him and marveled at the gracious words that came from His lips. “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?” they asked.

²³[Jesus] said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me:‘ Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard [that] You did in Capernaum.

²⁴Then He added, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

²⁵But I tell you truthfully [that] there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years [and] great famine swept over all the land.

²⁶Yet Elijah was [not] sent to [any] of them, but to [the] widow of Zarephath in Sidon.

²⁷And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. Yet not one of them was cleansed — only Naaman the Syrian.

²⁸On hearing [this], all [the people] in the synagogue were enraged.

²⁹They got up, drove Him out of [the] town, and led Him to [the] brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.

³⁰But [Jesus] passed through [the crowd] [and] went on His way.

³¹Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath He began to teach [the people].

³²They were astonished at His teaching, because His message had authority.

³³In the synagogue there was a man possessed by [the] spirit of an unclean demon. He cried out in a loud voice,

³⁴“Ha! What do You [want] with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are — the Holy [One] of God!”

³⁵[But] Jesus rebuked [the demon]. “Be silent! He said. “Come out of him! At this, the demon threw [the man] down before them all [and] came out without harming him.

³⁶All [the people] were overcome with amazement and asked one another, “What [is] this message? With authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

³⁷And the news about [Jesus] spread throughout the surrounding region.

³⁸After [Jesus] had left the synagogue, He went to the home of Simon, [whose] mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever. So they appealed to [Jesus] on her [behalf],

³⁹and He stood over her [and] rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once [and] began to serve them.

⁴⁰At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to [Jesus], and laying [His] hands on each one, He healed them.

⁴¹Demons also came out of many [people], shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But He rebuked [ the demons ] [and] would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Christ.

⁴²At daybreak, [Jesus] went out to a solitary place, and the crowds were looking for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him [from] leaving.

⁴³But [Jesus] told them, “I must preach [the] good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well, because that is why I was sent.

⁴⁴And He continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea.