Luke 4
1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness.
2 For forty days he was tempted by the Devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, he was hungry.
3 The Devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”
4 Jesus answered him, “It is written: ‘A human being will not live on bread alone.’”
5 Then the Devil led him up and showed him, in an instant, all the kingdoms of the world.
6 And the Devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I give it to anyone I want.
7 So if you bow down before me, it will all be yours.”
8 Jesus answered him, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone.’”
9 Then the Devil led him to Jerusalem, stood him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here.
10 For it is written: ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you.’
11 And also: ‘They will carry you in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
12 Jesus answered him, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
13 When the Devil had finished every temptation, he left him until an opportune time.
14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread throughout the whole surrounding region.
15 He was teaching in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.
16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. On the Sabbath day, as was his custom, he went into the synagogue and stood up to read.
17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to announce good news to the poor. He sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set the oppressed free,
19 and to proclaim the Lord’s favorable year.”
20 Then he rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down; and everyone in the synagogue had their eyes fixed on him.
21 Then he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
22 Everyone spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words coming from his mouth. They said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
23 He said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown everything we heard happened in Capernaum.’”
24 And he added, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is welcomed in his own hometown.
25 But I tell you the truth: there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months and a great famine came over the whole land.
26 Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but to a widow in Zarephath, in the region of Sidon.
27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
28 When everyone in the synagogue heard this, they were filled with anger.
29 They got up, drove him out of the city, and took him to the edge of the hill on which their city was built, intending to throw him down.
30 But he passed through the middle of them and went on his way.
31 Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and taught them on the Sabbaths.
32 Everyone was amazed at his teaching, because his word carried authority.
33 In the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice:
34 “Ah! What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God.”
35 Jesus rebuked him: “Be silent and come out of him.” The demon threw the man down in their midst and came out of him without harming him.
36 Everyone was astonished and said to one another, “What is this word? With authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
37 And news about him spread to every place in the surrounding region.
38 Jesus left the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law had a high fever, and they asked him to help her.
39 He bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began serving them.
40 At sunset, everyone who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on each one of them and healed them.
41 Demons also came out of many people, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not let them speak, because they knew he was the Christ.
42 At daybreak, he went out and made his way to a deserted place. The crowds were looking for him; they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.
43 But he said to them, “I must announce the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities too, because that is why I was sent.”
44 And he continued preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
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