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And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had finished, He was hungry. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Jesus answered him, <span class="red">“It is written, ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE.’”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the world in a moment of time. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the devil said to Him, “I will give You all this dominion and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>its glory, for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore if You <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>worship before me, it shall all be Yours.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Jesus answered and said to him, <span class="red">“It is written, ‘YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>LORD YOUR GOD AND SERVE HIM ONLY.’”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand 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="/luke/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>for it is written, <p class="indent2">‘HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU TO GUARD YOU,’ <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and, <p class="indent2">‘ON <i>their</i> HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP, <p class="indent2">LEST YOU STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Jesus answered and said to him, <span class="red">“It is said, ‘YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.’”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And when the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time. <p class="hdg">Jesus Begins His Ministry</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread through all the surrounding district. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And He was teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all. <p class="hdg">Jesus Rejected at Nazareth</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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 entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the scroll and found the place where it was written, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">“THE SPIRIT OF THE <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>LORD IS UPON ME,</span> <p class="indent2"><span class="red">BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR.</span> <p class="indent2"><span class="red">HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES,</span> <p class="indent2"><span class="red">AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND,</span> <p class="indent2"><span class="red">TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED,</span> <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>LORD.”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And He closed the scroll, 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="/luke/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And He began to say to them, <span class="red">“Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>hearing.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And all were <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>speaking well of Him and marveling at the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>gracious words which were coming forth from His lips, and they were saying, “Is this not Joseph’s son?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And He said to them, <span class="red">“No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard took place at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown as well.’”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And He said, <span class="red">“Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Zarephath, <i>in the land</i> of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And all <i>the people</i> in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things, <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and they stood up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the edge of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But passing through their midst, He went on His way. <p class="hdg">Jesus Casts Out an Unclean Demon</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and He was teaching them on the Sabbath; <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and they were amazed at His teaching, for His <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>message was with authority. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And in the synagogue there was a man <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>“<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Let us alone! <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>What do we have to do with You, Jesus the Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>But Jesus rebuked it, saying, <span class="red">“Be quiet and come out of him!”</span> And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst <i>of the people</i>, it came out of him without doing him any harm. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And amazement came upon them all, and they were talking with one another saying, “What is <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>this message? For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and they come out.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And the report about Him was spreading into every place in the surrounding district. <p class="hdg">Peter’s Mother-In-Law and Many Others Healed</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Then He stood up and <i>left</i> the synagogue, and entered Simon’s home. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to help her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And standing over her, He rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she stood up and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span><i>began</i> waiting on them. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And while the sun was setting, all those who had any <i>who were</i> sick with various diseases brought them to Him, and laying His hands on each one of them, He was healing them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And demons also were coming out of many, shouting and saying, “You are the Son of God!” But rebuking <i>them</i>, He was not allowing them to speak, because they knew Him to be the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Christ. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>When day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place; and the crowds were eagerly seeking for Him, and came to Him and tried to keep Him from going away from them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>But He said to them, <span class="red">“I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for I was sent for this purpose.”</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/4-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>So He kept on preaching in the synagogues of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Judea.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>under the influence of</i>; lit <i>in</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>the inhabited earth</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>their</i> (referring to the kingdoms in v 5)<br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>bow down before</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> In OT, Yahweh, cf. Deut 6:13<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> In OT, Yahweh, cf. Deut 6:16<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 61:1<br><span class="fnverse">19</span> In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 61:2<br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>ears</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Or <i>testifying</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Or <i>words of grace</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Gr <i>Sarepta</i><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> Lit <i>word</i><br><span class="fnverse">33</span> Lit <i>having a spirit</i><br><span class="fnverse">34</span> Lit <i>Ah!</i><br><span class="fnverse">34</span> Lit <i>What to us and to you</i> (a Heb idiom)<br><span class="fnverse">36</span> Or <i>this word, that with authority...come out?</i><br><span class="fnverse">38</span> Lit <i>about her</i><br><span class="fnverse">39</span> Or <i>served</i><br><span class="fnverse">41</span> Messiah<br><span class="fnverse">44</span> The country of the Jews (including Galilee)<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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