Luke 4
1Now Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was being led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2for forty days, being tested by the slanderer. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was hungry.
3The slanderer said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread." 4Jesus answered him, "It stands written: 'A person shall not live on bread alone.'"
5And leading him up, he showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited world in a single instant. 6The slanderer said to him, "To you I will give all this authority and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7So if you worship before me, it will all be yours." 8And Jesus answered him, "It stands written: 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him alone shall you serve.'"
9Then he led him to Jerusalem and set him on the wing 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 guard you,' 11and 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'" 12And Jesus answered him, "It has been said: 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'"
13When the slanderer had completed every test, he withdrew from him until an opportune moment.
14Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread throughout the whole surrounding region. 15He was teaching in their synagogues, being praised by everyone.
16He came to Nazara, where he had been raised. On the Sabbath day, as was his custom, he entered the synagogue and stood up to read. 17The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, and unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written:
18"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth the oppressed in freedom, 19to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
20Rolling up the scroll, he gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed intently on him. 21He began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
22Everyone was speaking well of him and marveling at the gracious words coming from his mouth. They were saying, "Is this not Joseph's son?" 23He said to them, "No doubt you will quote this proverb to me: 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard happened in Capernaum, do here also in your hometown.'" 24Then he said, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is welcome in his hometown. 25But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months and a great famine came over all the land, 26yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in the region of Sidon. 27And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."
28When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was filled with fury. 29They rose up and drove him out of the city and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, intending to throw him off the cliff. 30But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.
31He went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbaths. 32They were astonished at his teaching, because his word carried authority.
33In the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, 34"Ha! What is there between us and you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!" 35Jesus rebuked it, saying, "Be silent and come out of him!" And throwing the man down in their midst, the demon came out of him without harming him. 36Astonishment fell upon everyone, and they were saying to one another, "What is this word? With authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!" 37And the report about him was spreading into every place in the surrounding region.
38Rising from the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon. Now Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a severe fever, and they asked him about her. 39Standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it released her. Immediately she got up and began serving them.
40As the sun was setting, all who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to him. Laying his hands on each one of them, he was healing them. 41Demons also were coming out of many, crying out and saying, "You are the Son of God!" But rebuking them, he would not allow them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.
42When day came, he went out and traveled to a deserted place. The crowds were searching for him, and they came to where he was and tried to keep him from leaving them. 43But he said to them, "I must bring the good news of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this I was sent." 44And he was proclaiming in the synagogues of Judea.