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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Luke 4 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/luke/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/luke/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Luke 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/3.htm" title="Luke 3">◄</a> Luke 4 <a href="../luke/5.htm" title="Luke 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/luke/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Temptation of Jesus</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Jesus answered him, <span class="woc">“It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Jesus answered him, <span class="woc">“It is written,</span></p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group"><span class="woc">“‘You shall worship the Lord your God,</span><br /><span class="indent">and him only shall you serve.’”</span></span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>for it is written,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“‘He will command his angels concerning you,</span><br /><span class="indent">to guard you,’</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“‘On their hands they will bear you up,</span><br /><span class="indent">lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Jesus answered him, <span class="woc">“It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.</p> <p class="heading">Jesus Begins His Ministry</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.</p> <p class="heading">Jesus Rejected at Nazareth</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group"><span class="woc">“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,</span><br /><span class="indent">because he has anointed me</span><br /><span class="indent">to proclaim good news to the poor.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives</span><br /><span class="indent">and recovering of sight to the blind,</span><br /><span class="indent">to set at liberty those who are oppressed,</span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group"><span class="woc">to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”</span></span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he began to say to them, <span class="woc">“Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he said to them, <span class="woc">“Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘“Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And he said, <span class="woc">“Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="woc">But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="woc">and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="woc">And there were many lepers<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13">a</a></sup></span> in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But passing through their midst, he went away.</p> <p class="heading">Jesus Heals a Man with an Unclean Demon</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>“Ha!<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Leave us alone">b</a></sup></span> What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>But Jesus rebuked him, saying, <span class="woc">“Be silent and come out of him!”</span> And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And reports about him went out into every place in the surrounding region.</p> <p class="heading">Jesus Heals Many</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And demons also came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.</p> <p class="heading">Jesus Preaches in Synagogues</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>but he said to them, <span class="woc">“I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts Galilee">c</a></sup></span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> <i>Leprosy</i> was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">34</span> Or <i>Leave us alone</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">44</span> Some manuscripts <i>Galilee</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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