The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 4
{4:1} Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and
was led by the Spirit into the wilderness {4:2} for forty days, being
tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when
they were completed, he was hungry. {4:3} The devil said to him, "If
you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."
{4:4} Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"[1]
{4:5} The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all
the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. {4:6} 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. {4:7} If you
therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
{4:8} Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written,
'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you
serve.'"[2]
{4:9} 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, {4:10} for it is written,
'He will give his angels charge concerning you, to guard you;'
{4:11} and,
'On their hands they will bear you up,
lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.'"[3]
{4:12} Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall
not tempt the Lord your God.'"[4]
{4:13} When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed
from him until another time.
{4:14} Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and
news about him spread through all the surrounding area. {4:15} He
taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
{4:16} 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. {4:17} The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to
him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
{4:18} "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 heal the brokenhearted,
to proclaim release to the captives,
recovering of sight to the blind,
to deliver those who are crushed,
{4:19} and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."[5]
{4:20} He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat
down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. {4:21} He
began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your
hearing."
{4:22} 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?"
{4:23} 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.'" {4:24} He said, "Most certainly I
tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. {4:25} 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. {4:26} Elijah was sent to none of them, except
to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. {4:27}
There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet,
yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."
{4:28} They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they
heard these things. {4:29} 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. {4:30} But he, passing through the
midst of them, went his way.
{4:31} He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching
them on the Sabbath day, {4:32} and they were astonished at his
teaching, for his word was with authority. {4:33} In the synagogue
there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out
with a loud voice, {4:34} 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!"
{4:35} 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.
{4:36} 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!" {4:37} News about
him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
{4:38} 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. {4:39} He stood over her, and rebuked the
fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
{4:40} 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. {4:41} 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.
{4:42} 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. {4:43} 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." {4:44} He was
preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:4} Deuteronomy 8:3
[2] {4:8} Deuteronomy 6:13
[3] {4:11} Psalm 91:11-12
[4] {4:12} Deuteronomy 6:16
[5] {4:19} Isaiah 61:1-2
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