Open English Translation LUKE Chapter 4

4 Then Yeshua, full of the holy spirit, returned from the Yordan region and was led into the wilderness by the spirit 2 where he was tested by the devil for forty days. He didn’t eat anything during that time, and was hungry at the end.

3 So the devil told him, “If you’re God’s son, just turn this stone into bread.”

4 [ref]“It’s been written,” Yeshua replied, “that people don’t live just on food.”

5 Then the devil brought him up to a high point and in just a moment of time, showed him the vista of all the kingdoms of the world, 6 and he said, “I’ll give you this entire domain and the status of these kingdoms because it’s been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want, 7 so just bow down in front of me and it’ll all be yours.”

8 [ref]“It’s been written,” Yeshua answered, “that we should only bow down to Yahweh our God and only serve him.”

9 Then the devil led him to Yerusalem and they stood on the highest part of the temple, where he told him, “If you’re God’s son, throw yourself down from here, 10 [ref]because it’s written that God will command his messengers to guard you 11 and they will carry you in their hands, so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.”

12 [ref]“It’s been written,” Yeshua responded, “that we shouldn’t test Yahweh our God.”

13 So after completing every temptation, the devil withdrew from him for a time.

14 So then Yeshua returned to Galilee in the power of the spirit, and the news about him spread into the surrounding region. 15 He started teaching in the meeting halls and everyone said how good it was.

16 When he got to Nazareth where he grew up, he went into the meeting hall as usual on the Rest Day and stood up to do the reading. 17 The scroll of the prophet Isayah was handed to him, and opening up the scroll, he found the place where it was written,

18 [ref]“Yahweh’s spirit is on me,

because he has chosen and equipped me

to preach the good message to the poor.

He has sent me out to proclaim freedom for captives

and to restore sight to the blind,

and for the oppressed to experience freedom.

19 He’s sent me to proclaim that this is the year that Yahweh has chosen.”

20 Then after rolling up the scroll and giving it back to the attendant, he sat down to give his commentary and every person in the room was studying him 21 as he began to speak, “Today this scripture that you’ve just heard has been fulfilled.”

22 Later everyone was telling others about him, and they were marvelling at his messages displaying God’s grace, and they asked each other, “Isn’t this Yosef’s son from down the road?”

23 Then Yeshua answered them, “I’m sure you’ll all be telling me that parable about the doctor who needed to heal himself, because you’ll be wanting me to do here in my hometown what I did in Capernaum. 24 [ref]I can assure you all that no prophet is accepted by his own hometown. 25 [ref]There were certainly many widows in Israel in the days of Eliyah when God stopped the rain for three and a half years and caused a terrible famine. 26 [ref]But Eliyah wasn’t sent to any of them—rather he was sent to a foreign widow in Zarephath in the Tsidon region. 27 [ref]“Also there were many people in Israel with leprosy in the days of the prophet Elisha and none of them were healed, but only Naaman from Syria.”

28 By now everyone in the meeting hall that heard this was furious 29 and they all stood up, planning to throw him out of the city. They led him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to throw him over the edge, 30 but somehow he just moved through the middle of them and left.

31 After that, Yeshua went to Capernaum, another town in Galilee, and taught in the meeting hall there on the Rest Days. 32 [ref]They were amazed at his teaching, because he presented his message with authority. 33 One week there was a man at the meeting hall with a demon spirit and he yelled out, 34 “Ha! What do we have in common with you, Yeshua the Nazarene? Did you come here to destroy us? I know who you are—you’re the holy one from God.”

35 Yeshua rebuked the demon, saying, “Be quiet! Now come out of him!” Then the demon threw the man to the floor right in the middle of them, and came out of him, and left him feeling perfectly fine.

36 This amazed everyone and they started asking each other, “What is this command that has such authority and power that he orders evil spirits around and they come out?” 37 After that, the reports of what he’d done were passed around to every part of the surrounding region.

38 After getting up and leaving the meeting hall, Yeshua went to Simon’s home where Simon’s mother-in-law had been struck with a high fever and they asked Yeshua about it. 39 Going over to where she was lying, Yeshua rebuked the fever and it left her, and she stood up straight away and got them something to eat.

40 In the evening, anyone who had a relative with any kind of disease brought their sick relatives to Yeshua and he placed his hands on each one of them and healed them. 41 Also demons came out from many people, yelling out, “You are God’s son.”

But he rebuked them and didn’t allow them to speak because they knew that he was the messiah.

42 The next day, Yeshua went off to a quiet place, but the crowds were looking for him and followed after him and insisted that he didn’t leave them, 43 but he told them, “I also need to preach this good message about God’s kingdom in other towns, because that’s why I was sent here.” 44 So then he went down to Yudea and preached in the meeting halls there.