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He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But Jesus told him, <span class="red">“No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone.’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a>”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the devil took him up and revealed to 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>“I will give you the glory of these kingdoms and authority over them,” the devil said, “because they are mine to give to anyone I please. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I will give it all to you if you will worship me.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“The Scriptures say,</span></p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"><span class="red">‘You must worship the </span><span class="red"><span class="sc">Lord</span></span><span class="red"> your God</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">and serve only him.’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a>”</span></p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the Scriptures say,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">‘He will order his angels to protect and guard you.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they will hold you up with their hands</p><p class="line2">so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a>”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Jesus responded, <span class="red">“The Scriptures also say, ‘You must not test the </span><span class="red"><span class="sc">Lord</span></span><span class="red"> your God.’<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a>”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left him until the next opportunity came.</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Rejected at Nazareth</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">“The Spirit of the </span><span class="red"><span class="sc">Lord</span></span><span class="red"> is upon me,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.</span></p><p class="line1"><span class="red">He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">that the blind will see,</span></p><p class="line1"><span class="red">that the oppressed will be set free,</span></p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">and that the time of the </span><span class="red"><span class="sc">Lord</span></span><span class="red">’s favor has come.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a>”</span></p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then he began to speak to them. <span class="red">“The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Everyone spoke well of him and was amazed by the gracious words that came from his lips. “How can this be?” they asked. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then he said, <span class="red">“You will undoubtedly quote me this proverb: ‘Physician, heal yourself’—meaning, ‘Do miracles here in your hometown like those you did in Capernaum.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">But I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his own hometown.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">“Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">And many in Israel had leprosy in the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Jumping up, they mobbed him and forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended to push him over the cliff, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>but he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Casts Out a Demon</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then Jesus went to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and taught there in the synagogue every Sabbath day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>There, too, the people were amazed at his teaching, for he spoke with authority.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Once when he was in the synagogue, a man possessed by a demon—an evil<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> spirit—cried out, shouting, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>“Go away! Why are you interfering with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>But Jesus reprimanded him. <span class="red">“Be quiet! Come out of the man,”</span> he ordered. At that, the demon threw the man to the floor as the crowd watched; then it came out of him without hurting him further.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Amazed, the people exclaimed, “What authority and power this man’s words possess! Even evil spirits obey him, and they flee at his command!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>The news about Jesus spread through every village in the entire region.</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Heals Many People</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>After leaving the synagogue that day, Jesus went to Simon’s home, where he found Simon’s mother-in-law very sick with a high fever. “Please heal her,” everyone begged. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Standing at her bedside, he rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once and prepared a meal for them.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>As the sun went down that evening, people throughout the village brought sick family members to Jesus. No matter what their diseases were, the touch of his hand healed every one. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Many were possessed by demons; and the demons came out at his command, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But because they knew he was the Messiah, he rebuked them and refused to let them speak.</p><p class="hdg">Jesus Continues to Preach</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Early the next morning Jesus went out to an isolated place. The crowds searched everywhere for him, and when they finally found him, they begged him not to leave them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>But he replied, <span class="red">“I must preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God in other towns, too, because that is why I was sent.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>So he continued to travel around, preaching in synagogues throughout Judea.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">into the wilderness.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Deut 8:3.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Deut 6:13.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:10-11 </span><span class="ft">Ps 91:11-12.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:12 </span><span class="ft">Deut 6:16.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:18-19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">and to proclaim the acceptable year of the </span><span class="sc"><span class="it">Lord</span></span><span class="it">.</span><span class="ft"> Isa 61:1-2 (Greek version); 58:6.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:33 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">unclean;</span><span class="ft"> also in 4:36.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:44 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">Galilee.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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