Luke 4:29-43

²⁹So they all got up and shoved him out of the town. They took him to the top of the hill outside their town in order to throw him off the cliff and kill him.

³⁰But he simply walked through their midst and went away.

³¹One day Jesus went with his disciples down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee district. On the next ◄Sabbath/Jewish day of rest► (OR, Each ◄Sabbath/Jewish day of rest►), he taught the people ◄ in the synagogue/in the Jewish meeting place►.

³²They were continually amazed at what he was teaching, because he spoke ◄ with authority/as people speak who have the right to command others what to do►.

³³That day, (OR, On one of those Jewish days of rest,) there was a man in the synagogue who was controlled by an evil spirit. That man shouted very loudly,

³⁴“Hey! Jesus, from Nazareth! We(exc) evil spirits have nothing in common with you, so ◄ do not interfere with us now!/why should you interfere with us now?► RHQ ◄Do not destroy us now!/Have you come to destroy us now?► RHQ I know who you are. You are the Holy One who has come from God!”

³⁵Jesus rebuked the evil spirit, saying, “Be quiet! And come out of the man!” The demon threw the man down on the ground in the midst of the people. But without harming the man, the demon left him.

³⁶The people were all amazed. They said to each other, “◄What he says to the demons has great power!/What kind of teaching is this?► RHQ He speaks to them like he knows that they must obey him, and as a result they leave people!”

³⁷The people were telling everyone in every village in the surrounding region what Jesus had done.

³⁸Jesus and his disciples left ◄the synagogue/the Jewish meeting place► and entered Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was sick and had a high fever. So others in Simon's family (OR, the disciples) asked Jesus to heal her.

³⁹So he bent over her and commanded the fever to leave her. At once she became well! She got up and served them some food.

⁴⁰When the sun was setting that day, and the restriction about not traveling ◄on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day► was ended, many people HYP whose friends or relatives were sick or who had various diseases brought them to Jesus. He put his hands on them and healed all of them.

⁴¹He also was expelling demons from many people. As the demons left those people, they shouted to Jesus, “You are ◄the Son of God/the one who is God and man►!” But he rebuked those demons and would not allow them to tell people about him, because they knew that he was the Messiah, and for various reasons he did not want everyone to know that yet.

⁴²Early the next morning Jesus left that house and went to an uninhabited place to pray. Many people searched for him, and when they found him they kept urging him not to leave them.

⁴³But he said to them, “I must tell people in other towns also the good message about how God wants to rule MET their lives, because that is what I was sent { God sent me} to do.”