New Testament · Gospels and Acts

Luke chapter 4

Jesus, completely filled with , came back from . The Breath then led him into the where he was by for . He ate nothing during that time, and when it was over, he was starving.The devil said to him, “If you really are the , tell this stone to become bread.”Jesus answered him, “: ‘A person doesn’t live on bread alone.’”Then the devil took him up to a high place and showed him all the kingdoms of in a single moment.The devil told him, “I’ll give you all this and — it’s been handed over to me, and I give it to whoever I want.”“So if you me, it will all be yours.”Jesus answered him, “It’s written: ‘Worship your God and only him.’”Then the devil brought him to , set him on the highest point of the , and said, “If you really are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here.”“Because it’s written: ‘He will order his to protect you,’”“and ‘They will carry you in their hands so you won’t even stub your foot on a stone.’”Jesus answered him, “It also says: ‘Don’t Yahweh your God .’”After exhausting every kind of test, the devil left him .Jesus returned to in the power of , and news about him spread through the entire region.He taught in their , and everyone was by him.He went to , where he’d grown up, and on he went into the synagogue as he usually did. He stood up to read,and the of the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it says:“ is on me, because he has to bring to . He has sent me to announce freedom to prisoners, and sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,”“and to announce that now is .”He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the , and . Every eye in the synagogue was fixed on him.Then he said to them, “Today, this has right here as you listened.”Everyone spoke well of him and was amazed at the coming from his mouth. But they asked, “Wait — isn’t this Joseph’s son?”He said to them, “You’re definitely going to quote this proverb at me: ‘Doctor, heal yourself.’ And you’ll say, ‘We’ve heard what you did in — do the same things here in your hometown.’”Then he continued, “I’m telling you the truth — no is accepted in his hometown.”“Believe me, there were plenty of in Israel during ’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and severe famine hit the whole land.”“Yet Elijah wasn’t sent to any of them. He was sent to a widow in — in .”“And there were plenty of people with in Israel during the prophet ’s time, but none of them were healed — only .”When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were .They jumped up, drove him out of town, and dragged him to the edge of the hill their town was built on, intending to throw him off the cliff.But he walked right through the middle of the crowd and went on his way.Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and taught the people on the Sabbath.They were blown away by his teaching, because he spoke with real .In the synagogue there was a man controlled by a , and he screamed at the top of his lungs,“Ha! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know exactly who you are. You’re !”“Be quiet!” Jesus commanded. “Come out of him!” The demonic spirit threw the man down in front of everyone and came out without hurting him.Everyone was stunned. They said to each other, “What kind of is this? He orders these unclean spirits with authority and , and they actually leave!”And news about him spread to every place in the surrounding area.After leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to ’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a severe fever, and they asked Jesus to help her.He stood over her and , and it left her. She got up immediately and started taking care of them., everyone who had sick family members — no matter what the illness — brought them to Jesus. He each one of them and healed them.Demonic spirits also came out of many people, screaming, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and wouldn’t let them speak, because they knew he was .At daybreak, Jesus went out to an . The crowds searched for him and when they found him, they tried to keep him from leaving.But he told them, “I have to bring the of to other towns too — that’s exactly why I was .”And he kept teaching in the synagogues throughout .