Luke - Chapter 4

Passage

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert For forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. And the devil said to him: If you are the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread. And Jesus answered him: It is written that Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. And the devil led him into a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And he said to him: To you I will give all this power and the glory of them. For they have been handed over to me: and to whomever I will, I give them. If you therefore will adore before me, all shall be yours. And Jesus answered and said to him: It is written: You shall adore the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve. And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to him: If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here. For it is written that He has given his angels charge over you, that they keep you, And that in their hands they shall bear you up, so that you do not dash your foot against a stone. And Jesus answered and said to him: It is said: You shall not tempt the Lord your God. And when all the temptation was ended, the devil departed from him for a time. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and news of him went out through the whole country. And he taught in their synagogues and was praised by all. And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and he went into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath day: and he rose up to read. And the book of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. And as he unrolled the book, he found the place where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Therefore he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to heal the contrite of heart, To preach deliverance to the captives and sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of reward. And when he had rolled up the book, he gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them: Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. And all spoke well of him. And they wondered at the words of grace that came from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son of Joseph? And he said to them: Surely you will say to me this proverb: Physician, heal yourself. The great things we have heard were done in Capernaum, do also here in your own country. And he said: Amen I say to you that no prophet is accepted in his own country. In truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the land. And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian. And all those in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled with anger. And they rose up and drove him out of the city: and they brought him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, so that they might throw him down headlong. But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way. And he went down into Capernaum, a city of Galilee: and there he taught them on the sabbath days. And they were astonished at his teaching: for his word was with power. And in the synagogue there was a man who had an unclean devil: and he cried out with a loud voice, Saying: Leave us alone. 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. And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Be quiet and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him down in their midst, he went out of him and did him no harm at all. And fear came upon all; and they talked among themselves, saying: What word is this? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they go out. And news of him spread into every place in the country. And Jesus, rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was sick with a great fever: and they begged him for her. And standing over her, he commanded the fever: and it left her. And immediately rising, she served them. And when the sun had set, all who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him. But he, laying his hands on every one of them, healed them. And devils went out from many, crying out and saying: You are the Son of God. And rebuking them, he did not allow them to speak; for they knew that he was the Christ. And when it was day, going out, he went into a desert place: and the crowds looked for him and came to him. And they tried to keep him from leaving them. And he said to them: I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for this is why I am sent. And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.