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Version 0.94.54, 23 October 2023

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Luke Chapter 4

1Then Jesus, who was full of holy spirit, returned from the Jordan, and he was led by the spirit into the desert, 2and he was tempted by the devil for forty days, and he did not eat anything in those days. Then when they were completed – after all this – he was hungry. 3The devil said to him, “If you are the son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” 4At this Jesus answered him and said, “It stands written: ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ” 5Then the devil led him up to a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 6and the devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, because it has been given to me, and I give it to whomever I wish, 7so if you worship me, all that will be yours.” 8Then Jesus answered him and said, “Off with you behind me, Satan. It stands written: ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ” 9Next he led him to Jerusalem, and he stood him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the son of God, throw yourself down from here, 10for it stands written:

‘He will command his angels concerning you

To protect you’,

11and,

‘They will bear you on their hands

So that you don't strike your foot against a stone.’ ”

12At this Jesus responded and said to him, “It has been spoken: ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ” 13Then having finished each temptation, the devil withdrew from him for a while, 14and Jesus returned in the power of the spirit to Galilee. Then a report about him spread throughout the entire surrounding region, 15and he himself taught in their synagogues, and he was glorified by all. 16Then he went to Nazareth where he had been brought up, and in accordance with his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. 17Now the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed over to him, and he unrolled the book, and he found the place where it was written:

18The spirit of the Lord is on me,

On account of which he has anointed me

To bring good tidings to the poor.

He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,

To proclaim release to captives,

And recovery of sight to the blind,

To send the wounded off discharged,

19To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

20Then he rolled the book up and returned it to the attendant, and he sat down. Now the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were looking at him intently, 21but he went on to say to them, “Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears.” 22So they all bore witness to him, and they were astounded at the words of grace coming from his mouth, and they said, “Isn't this the son of Joseph?” 23At this he said to them, “You will no doubt tell me this adage: ‘Doctor, cure yourself. All the things we have heard which took place in Capernaum, do also here in your native country.’ ” 24And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his native country, 25and I say to you truthfully, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven had been closed for three years and six months, when there was a severe famine in all the land, 26and Elijah was not sent to any of them except to Sarepta in Sidon, to a widowed woman. 27Also, there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” 28Then they were all filled with anger in the synagogue on hearing these things, 29and they rose up and threw him out of the town, and they led him to the brow of the mountain on which their town had been built, intending to throw him off a precipice, 30but he slipped through the thick of them and went his way. 31Then he came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and he would teach them on the Sabbath days, 32and they were astonished at his teaching, because his word was with authority. 33Now there was a man in the synagogue possessed by a spirit of an unclean demon, and he shouted out in a loud voice, 34and he said, “Hey, what have you got to do with us, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the holy one of God.” 35Then Jesus rebuked it and said, “Be silent and come out of him.” At this the demon threw him right in among them, and it came out of him, not having harmed him in any way. 36And astonishment came upon them all, and they spoke to each other and said, “What kind of speech is this, where he commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out?” 37Consequently, rumours about him spread to every place in the surrounding area. 38Then he left the synagogue and went to Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a severe fever, and they appealed to him concerning her. 39So he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she got up and waited on them. 40Then when the sun was setting, all those who had folk sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on each one of them and cured them. 41Demons also came out of many of them, shouting and saying, “You are the Christ the son of God”, but he rebuked them and did not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ. 42Then when it was day, he departed and went to a desolate place, but the crowds looked for him and came up to him and tried to stop him moving on from them. 43So he said to them, “I must also announce good tidings of the kingdom of God to the other towns, because this is what I have been sent for.” 44Then he would proclaim it in the synagogues of Galilee.

Reference(s) in Chapter 4: v.4 ↔ Deuteronomy 8:3 ● v.8 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:13, Deuteronomy 10:20 ● v.10 ↔ Psalm 91:11 ● v.11 ↔ Psalm 91:12 ● v.12 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:16 ● v.18 ↔ Isaiah 61:1, Isaiah 58:6, Isaiah 35:5 ● v.19 ↔ Isaiah 61:2 ● v.26 ↔ 1 Kings 17:9.

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