The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 4
{4:1} Yeshua, full of the [1>]Ruach HaKodesh[<1], returned from the
Yarden, 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} Yeshua answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"
{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} Yeshua answered him, "Get behind me Hasatan! For it is
written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you
serve.'"
{4:9} He led him to Yerushalayim, 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.'"
{4:12} Yeshua answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall
not tempt the Lord your God.'"
{4:13} When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed
from him until another time.
{4:14} Yeshua returned in the power of the Spirit to the Galil, 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 Natzeret, where he had been brought up. He
entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the day of Shabbat,
and stood up to read. {4:17} The book of the prophet Yesha`yahu 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."
{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 Yosef's
son?"
{4:23} He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable,
'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at
Kafar-Nachum, do also here in your hometown.'" {4:24} He said, "Most
assuredly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. {4:25}
But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Yisra'el in the days
of Eliyah, when the the sky was shut up three years and six months,
when a great famine came over all the land. {4:26} Eliyah was sent to
none of them, except to Tzarfat, in the land of Tzidon, to a woman who
was a widow. {4:27} There were many lepers in Yisra'el in the time of
Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Na`aman,
the Arammian."
{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 Kafar-Nachum, a city of the Galil. He was
teaching them on the day of Shabbat, {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, Yeshua of Natzeret? Have you come to destroy us? I know you
who you are: the Holy One of God!"
{4:35} Yeshua 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 Shim`on's
house. Shim`on'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 Messiah, the Son of God!"
Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that
he was the Messiah.
{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 the Galil.
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:1} Holy Spirit
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