Luke 4:4-37

⁴And Jesus answered him, “Scripture says — ‘It is not on bread alone that a person is to live.’”

⁵And the devil led Jesus up, and showing him in a single moment all the kingdoms of the earth, said to him,

⁶“I will give you all this power, and the splendor of them; for it has been given into my hands and I give it to whom I wish.

⁷If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

⁸And Jesus answered him, “Scripture says — ‘You should worship the Lord your God, and worship him only.’”

⁹The devil next led him into Jerusalem, and, placing him on the parapet of the Temple, said, “If you are God's Son throw yourself down from here,

¹⁰for scripture says — ‘He will give his angels commands about you, to guard you safely,’

¹¹And ‘On their hands they will lift you up, otherwise you might strike your foot against a stone.’”

¹²But Jesus answered him, “It is said — ‘You must not tempt the Lord your God.’”

¹³When he had tried every kind of temptation, the devil left Jesus, until another opportunity.

¹⁴Moved by the power of the Spirit, Jesus returned to Galilee. Reports about him spread through all that region;

¹⁵and he began to teach in their synagogues, and was honored by everyone.

¹⁶Coming to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, Jesus, as was his custom, went on the Sabbath into the synagogue, and stood up to read the scriptures.

¹⁷He was given the book of the prophet Isaiah; and Jesus opened the book and found the place where it says —

¹⁸‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, For he has consecrated me to bring good news to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and restoration of sight to the blind, To set the oppressed at liberty,

¹⁹to proclaim the accepted year of the Lord.’

²⁰Then, closing the book and returning it to the attendant, he sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him,

²¹and Jesus began, “This very day this passage has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

²²All who were present spoke well of him, and were astonished at the beautiful words that fell from his lips. “Isn't Joseph's son?” they asked.

²³“Doubtless,” said Jesus, “you will remind me of the saying — ‘Doctor, cure yourself;’ and you will say ‘Do here in your own country all that we have heard that has been done at Capernaum.’

²⁴I tell you,” he continued, “that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

²⁵There were, doubtless, many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, and a severe famine prevailed throughout the country;

²⁶and yet it was not to one of them that Elijah was sent, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidonia.

²⁷And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet it was not one of them who was made clean, but Naaman the Syrian.”

²⁸All the people in the synagogue, as they listened to this, became enraged.

²⁹Starting up, they drove Jesus out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town stood, intending to hurl him down.

³⁰But he passed through the middle of the crowd and went on his way.

³¹Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee. On the Sabbath he taught the people.

³²They were amazed at his teaching, because his words were spoken with authority.

³³In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of a foul demon in him, who called out loudly,

³⁴“Stop! 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!”

³⁵But Jesus rebuked the demon. “Be silent! Come out from him,” he said. The demon flung the man down in the middle of the people, and then came out from him, without causing him further harm.

³⁶And they were all lost in amazement, and kept saying to one another, “What words are these? For he gives his commands to the foul spirits with a marvelous authority, and they come out.”

³⁷And rumors about Jesus traveled through every place in the region.