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Luke 4:2-24

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2forty days, 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 thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it become a loaf of bread.
4And Jesus answered him, It is written, “Not on bread alone shall man live.”
5And taking him up, he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6And the Devil said to him, All this power will I give thee, and their glory; because to me it hath been delivered, and I give it to whomever I will.
7If thou then wilt worship me, it shall all be thine.
8And Jesus answering said to him, It is written, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”
9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence;
10for it is written, “He will give his angels charge concerning thee, to guard thee;
11and in their hands they will bear thee up, that thou mayst not dash thy foot against a stone.”
12And Jesus answering said to him, It hath been said, “Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.”
13And when he had brought every temptation to an end, the Devil departed from him for a season.
14And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee; and there went out a report concerning him through all the surrounding country
15And he taught in their synagogues, honored by all.
16And he came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day; and stood up to read.
17And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Isaiah; and unrolling the book, he found the place where it was written,
18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he hath sent me to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty the oppressed,
19to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
20And rolling up the book, he gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.
21And he began to say to them, To-day hath this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.
22And they all spoke in his praise, and wondered at the words of grace which proceeded from his mouth; and they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
23And he said to them, Ye will doubtless say to me this proverb, “Physician, heal thyself;” whatever things we have heard of as having been done in Capernaum, do here too in thy own country.
24And he said, Truly do I say to you, No prophet is acceptable in his own country.

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