Luke 4

Thomson^{(i) 1} Now Jesus being full of a holy spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the spirit into the wilderness; ² and being forty days tempted by the devil, he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he at length was hungry. ³ Whereupon the devil said to him, If thou art Son of God, command that stone to become a loaf of bread. ⁴ And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, that man can live, not by bread only, but by whatever God appointeth. ⁵ Now the devil having taken him up to a high mountain, had shewed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited land, in a moment of time, ⁶ and the devil said to him, To thee I will give all this dominion and the glory of these; for to me it is delivered over, and I give it to whom I please. ⁷ If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. ⁸ Thereupon Jesus, answering him, said, Get thee behind me, Satan, for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only thou shalt serve." ⁹ He had also brought him to Jerusalem and placed him on the battlement of the temple, and said to him, If thou art the son of God, throw thyself down from this; ¹⁰ for it is written, that He will give his angels a charge concerning thee to preserve thee; ¹¹ and that With their hands they will bear thee up, shouldst thou peradventure dash thy foot against a stone. ¹² In reply to which, Jesus said to him, It is said," Thou shalt not try the Lord thy God." ¹³ And when the devil had ended every trial, he departed from him for a time. ¹⁴ And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit to Galilee, and a report went forth through all the neighbouring country, concerning him. ¹⁵ He indeed taught in their synagogues with universal applause. ¹⁶ And when he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went according to his custom to the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read. ¹⁷ And the book of the prophet Esaias was delivered to him. And having unrolled the volume, he found the place where it was written, ¹⁸ The spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the business for which he anointed me. He hath sent me to publish glad tidings to the poor; to heal them who are broken hearted; to proclaim a deliverance to captives; and a recovery of sight, to the blind; to set at liberty the bruised; ¹⁹ to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." ²⁰ And when he had rolled up the volume and given it to the attendant, he sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue being fixed on him, ²¹ he began with saying to them, This day there is an accomplishment of this scripture, which you have just heard. ²² And all bore testimony in his favour, and expressed admiration at the graceful words which proceeded from his mouth, and said, Is not this the son of Joseph? ²³ Upon which he said to them, you will doubtless apply to me this proverb; Physician heal thyself: what we have heard done in Capernaum, do here also in thine own country. ²⁴ Then he said to them, Verily I say to you, No prophet is well received in his own country. ²⁵ And indeed I tell you, There were many widows in Israel in die days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that there was a great famine over all the land; ²⁶ but Elias was sent to none of them, but to a widow woman at Sarepta, a city of Sidon. ²⁷ And there were many lepers in Israel in the days of Eliseus the prophet, but none of them was cleansed; none but Naeman the Syrian. ²⁸ At hearing this, all that were in the synagogue were filled with wrath, ²⁹ and rising up, they drove him out of the city, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, in order to throw him down headlong. ³⁰ But he, having passed through the midst of them, went away. ³¹ When he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbath days, ³² they were astonished at his manner of teaching, for his discourse was with authority. ³³ And there was in the synagogue a man, who had a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried with a loud voice, ³⁴ saying, Hah! What hast thou to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth! Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art. The holy one of God. ³⁵ Thereupon Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent and go out of him. And the demon having thrown the man in the midst, went out of him without hurting him. ³⁶ And they were all amazed, and said to one another, What is the meaning of this, that with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they go out? ³⁷ And his fame spread through all the neighbouring country. ³⁸ When he withdrew from the synagogue he went to the house of Simon. Now Simon's mother in law was confined with a violent fever, and they besought him on her behalf. ³⁹ Whereupon standing over her, he rebuked the fever and it left her; and she arose immediately and waited upon them. ⁴⁰ And when the sun was set, all that had any sick of any kind of disease, brought them to him; and he, laying his hands on every one of them, healed them. ⁴¹ Now demons indeed used to go out of many, screaming and saying, Thou art the Christ the son of God; but he, rebuking them, did not suffer them to say that they knew him to be the Christ. ⁴² Now, having gone out as day was coming on, he went to a solitary place; and the people sought him, and went out to him, and pressed him not to leave them. ⁴³ But he said to them, I must publish the glad tidings of the reign of God in other cities also, because I am sent for this purpose. ⁴⁴ Accordingly he proceeded on, making proclamation in the synagogues of Galilee.