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1 Jesus,
full of the
Holy Spirit,
returned from the
Jordan and was
led by the
Spirit into the
wilderness
2 for
forty days, being
tempted by the
devil. He ate
nothing in those
days. Afterward, when
they were completed,
he was hungry.
3 The
devil said to
him, “If you
are the Son
of God, command
this stone to
become bread.”
4 Jesus answered
him, saying,
“It is written,
‘Man shall not
live by bread
alone, but by
every word of
God.’ ”
5 The devil,
leading him up on
a high mountain,
showed him all
the kingdoms of
the world in
a moment of
time.
6 The
devil said to
him, “I will
give you all
this authority and
their glory, for
it has been
delivered to me,
and I give
it to whomever
I want.
7 If
you therefore will
worship before me,
it will all
be yours.”
8 Jesus
answered him,
“Get behind me, Satan!
For it is
written, ‘You
shall worship
the Lord your
God, and you
shall serve him
only.’ ”
9 He led
him to Jerusalem
and set him
on the pinnacle
of the temple,
and said to
him, “If you
are the Son
of God, cast
yourself down from
here,
10 for
it is written,
‘He will put
his angels in
charge of you,
to guard you;’
11 and,
‘On their hands
they will bear
you up,
lest perhaps you
dash your foot
against a
stone.’ ”
12 Jesus answering, said
to him,
“It has been
said, ‘You shall
not tempt the
Lord your
God.’ ”
13 When
the devil
had completed every
temptation, he departed
from him until
another time.
14 Jesus
returned in the
power of the
Spirit into
Galilee, and news
about him spread
through all the
surrounding area.
15 He
taught in their
synagogues, being
glorified by all.
16 He
came to Nazareth,
where he had
been brought up.
He entered, as
was his custom,
into the synagogue
on the Sabbath
day, and stood
up to read.
17 The
book of the
prophet Isaiah was
handed to him.
He opened the book,
and found the
place where it
was written,
18 “The Spirit of
the Lord is
on me,
because he has
anointed me to
preach good news
to the
poor.
He has sent
me to heal
the broken hearted,
to proclaim release
to the captives,
recovering of sight to
the blind,
to deliver those
who are crushed,
19 and to proclaim
the acceptable
year of the
Lord.”
20 He
closed the book,
gave it back to
the attendant, and
sat down. The
eyes of all
in the synagogue
were fastened on
him.
21 He
began to tell
them,
“Today, this
Scripture has been
fulfilled in
your hearing.”
22 All
testified about
him and wondered
at the gracious
words which
proceeded out of
his mouth; and
they said, “Isn’t
this Joseph’s son?”
23 He
said to them,
“Doubtless you will
tell me this
proverb, ‘Physician,
heal yourself!
Whatever we
have heard done
at Capernaum, do
also here in
your hometown.’ ”
24 He
said,
“Most certainly I tell
you, no prophet
is acceptable in
his hometown.
25 But truly I
tell you, there
were many widows
in Israel in
the days of
Elijah, when the
sky was shut
up three years
and six months,
when a great
famine came over
all the land.
26 Elijah was sent
to none of
them, except to
Zarephath, in
the land of
Sidon, to a
woman who was
a widow.
27 There were many
lepers in Israel
in the time
of Elisha the
prophet, yet not
one of them
was cleansed,
except Naaman,
the Syrian.”
28 They
were all filled
with wrath in
the synagogue as
they heard these
things.
29 They
rose up, threw
him out of
the city, and led
him to the
brow of the
hill that their
city was built
on, that they
might throw him off
the cliff.
30 But
he, passing
through the middle
of them, went
his way.
31 He
came down to
Capernaum, a city
of Galilee. He
was teaching them
on the Sabbath
day,
32 and
they were
astonished at his
teaching, for his
word was with
authority.
33 In
the synagogue
there was a man
who had a
spirit of
an unclean demon;
and he cried
out with a
loud voice,
34 saying, “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,
saying,
“Be silent and
come out of
him!”
When the demon
had thrown him
down in the
middle of them,
he came out
of him, having done
him no harm.
36 Amazement
came on all
and they spoke
together, one with
another, saying, “What
is this word?
For with authority
and power he
commands the unclean
spirits, and they
come out!”
37 News about
him went out
into every place
of the surrounding
region.
38 He
rose up from
the synagogue and
entered into
Simon’s house.
Simon’s mother-in-law
was afflicted with
a great fever,
and they begged
him to help
her.
39 He
stood over her
and rebuked the
fever, and it left
her. Immediately
she rose up
and served them.
40 When
the sun was
setting, all those
who had any
sick with various
diseases brought
them to him;
and he laid
his hands on
every one of
them, and healed
them.
41 Demons
also came out
of many, crying
out and saying, “You
are the Christ,
the Son of
God!” Rebuking
them, he didn’t
allow them to
speak, because
they knew that
he was the
Christ.
42 When
it was day,
he departed and
went into
an uninhabited place
and the multitudes
looked for him,
and came to
him, and held
on to him,
so that
he wouldn’t go
away from them.
43 But
he said to
them,
“I must preach
the good news
of God’s Kingdom
to the other
cities also. For
this reason I
have been
sent.”
44 He
was preaching in
the synagogues of
Galilee.