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The Gospel of Luke 4

4 After John baptized him, Jesus came back out of the Jordan River. The Holy Spirit was fully empowering him. Then the Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness. 2 Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days. While he was there, the devil kept tempting him. During that entire time, Jesus did not eat anything. So when the 40 days were over, he was very hungry. 3 Then the devil said to Jesus, “If you really are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread for you to eat!” 4 Jesus replied, “No, I will not do that, because the Scriptures say, ‘People need more than just food in order to live.’ ” 5 Then the devil took Jesus up to the top of a high mountain and showed him all the nations of the world in an instant. 6 Then the devil said to Jesus, “I will make you the ruler over all of these nations and you will possess all of their wealth. I can do this because God has permitted me to control all of them, and so I can give them to whomever I wish. 7 All you have to do is bow down and worship me. Then I will let you rule them all!” 8 But Jesus replied, “No, I will not worship you, because the Scriptures say, ‘You must only worship the Lord your God. He is the only one you may serve!’ ”

9 Then the devil took Jesus to Jerusalem. He set him on the highest part of the temple and said to him, “If you really are the Son of God, jump down from here. 10 You will not be hurt, because the Scriptures say,

‘God will command his angels to protect you.’ 11 And the Scriptures also say,

‘The angels will hold you up in their hands when you are falling, so that you will not get hurt.’ ” 12 But Jesus replied, “No, I will not do that, because the Scriptures also say: ‘Do not test the Lord your God’.”

13 Then, after the devil had finished trying to tempt Jesus in all of these ways, the devil left Jesus to wait until another time when he could try to tempt Jesus again.

14 After this, Jesus left the desolate area and returned to the district of Galilee. The Holy Spirit was empowering him. Throughout that whole region, people heard about Jesus and told others about him. 15 He taught people in their Jewish meeting places. As a result, all of the people praised him.

16 Then Jesus went to Nazareth, the town where he had grown up. As he usually did on the Jewish day of rest, he went to the Jewish meeting place. At the appropriate time, he stood up to read something aloud from the Scriptures. 17 Jesus wanted to read some of the words that the prophet Isaiah had spoken long ago. So he asked for the scroll that contained these words, and a synagogue attendant handed it to him. Jesus unrolled the scroll and found the place from which he wanted to read. He read these words:

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is empowering me,

because he has specially appointed me to declare God’s good news to people who are poor.

He has sent me to declare to people who are in prison that they will go free,

and to tell those who are blind that they will see again.

He has sent me to release people whom others are oppressing,

19 and to announce that now is the time when the Lord will act favorably toward people.”

20 Then he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant, and he sat down to teach the people. Everyone in the Jewish meeting place was looking intently at him. 21 He began to teach them by saying, “I have made this Scripture passage come true right now, as you heard me read it.” 22 Everyone there approved of him and they were amazed at the wonderful things that he said. Many of them said to each other, “It is surprising that he can speak like this! This man is only Joseph’s son!” 23 He said to them, “Surely some of you will quote to me the proverb that says, ‘Doctor, heal yourself!’ What you will mean by it is, ‘People told us that you did miracles in the town of Capernaum. If you want us to believe that you are a prophet, then do the same kind of miracles here in your hometown!’ ” 24 Then he said, “It is certainly true that the people in a prophet’s own hometown do not accept that he is a prophet. 25 Think about this: There were many widows in Israel during the time when the prophet Elijah lived. At that time there was no rain for three and a half years. This caused a great famine throughout the whole country. 26 And yet God did not send Elijah to help any of the widows in Israel. Instead, God sent him to the town of Zarephath near the city of Sidon, to help a non-Israelite widow there. 27 There were also many lepers in Israel during the time when the prophet Elisha lived. But Elisha did not heal any of them. Instead, he healed only Naaman, a non-Israelite man from the country of Syria.” 28 When all the people in the Jewish meeting place heard him say those things, they became very angry. 29 So they stood up, grabbed Jesus, and dragged him out of the city. They took him to the edge of the cliff outside of their city in order to throw him off of the cliff and kill him. 30 But Jesus simply walked through the crowd and went away.

31 From there Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in the district of Galilee. On each Jewish day of rest, he taught the people in the Jewish meeting place there. 32 The things that Jesus taught the people amazed them, because he spoke as someone who knew what he was talking about. 33 Now in that Jewish meeting place there was a man whom an evil spirit controlled. He shouted very loudly, 34 “Aah! Jesus, from Nazareth! What do you want with us? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are! You are the Holy One from God!” 35 But Jesus spoke sternly to the evil spirit. He said, “Be quiet and come out of him!” The evil spirit threw the man down on the ground in the middle of the people. But then he came out of the man, without harming him. 36 All of the people in the Jewish meeting place were amazed. Many of them said to each other, “We have never seen anything like this! His words are so powerful! He commands the evil spirits as if they must obey him, and when he commands them, they come out of people!” 37 In every place throughout the surrounding region, people kept talking about what Jesus had done.

38 Then Jesus left the Jewish meeting place and went to the house of a man named Simon. His mother-in-law was there. She was sick and had a high fever. The people there asked Jesus to heal her. 39 So Jesus went over to where she was and stood next to her. He commanded the fever to leave her, and it did! She immediately got up and served them some food.

40 When the sun was setting, which ended the Jewish day of rest, many people whose friends or relatives were sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus. He put his hands on each one of them and healed them. 41 As Jesus put his hands on the sick people, evil spirits also came out from many of them. As the evil spirits came out, they shouted to Jesus, “You are the Son of God!” But he commanded those evil spirits not to tell people about him, because they knew that he was the Messiah.

42 Early the next morning, Jesus went out to an uninhabited place. Crowds of people went looking for him. When they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. 43 But Jesus said to them, “I must also tell people in other cities the good news that they can have God rule their lives, because that is what God sent me here to do.” 44 So he went on preaching in the Jewish meeting places throughout the province of Judea.

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