Luke 3–4

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of ^aTiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate ^bbeing governor of Judea, and ^cHerod being ^dtetrarch of Galilee, and his brother ^ePhilip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, ^2fAnnas and ^gCaiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto ^hJohn ⁱthe son of Zacharias ^jin the wilderness. ³And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance ^kfor the remission of sins; ⁴as it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, ^lThe voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. ⁵Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; ^6mand all flesh shall see ^mmthe salvation of God. ⁷Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? ⁸Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and ⁿbegin not to say within yourselves, We have ⁿⁿAbraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. ⁹And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

¹⁰And the people asked him, saying, ^oWhat shall we do then? ¹¹He answereth and saith unto them, ^pHe that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. ¹²Then came also ^qpublicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, ^owhat shall we do? ¹³And he said unto them, ^rExact no more than that which is appointed you. ¹⁴And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, ^oAnd what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither ^saccuse any falsely; and be content with your ^twages.

¹⁵And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, ^uwhether he were the Christ, or not; ¹⁶John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the ^xlatchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: ¹⁷whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his ^ygarner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. ¹⁸And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people. ^19zBut ^aHerod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother ^aPhilip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, ²⁰added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

²¹Now when all the people were baptized, ^bit came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and ^cpraying, the heaven was opened, ²²and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

²³And Jesus himself began to be about ^dthirty years of age, being (as was supposed) ^ethe son of Joseph, ^fwhich was the son of Heli, ²⁴which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph, ²⁵which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge, ²⁶which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda, ²⁷which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of ^gZorobabel, which was the son of ^gSalathiel, which was the son of Neri, ²⁸which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er, ²⁹which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, ³⁰which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim, ³¹which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of ^hNathan, which was the son of ⁱDavid, ³²which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson, ³³which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda, ³⁴which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, ^kwhich was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor, ³⁵which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala, ^36lwhich was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, ^mwhich was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech, ³⁷which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan, ³⁸which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, ⁿwhich was the son of God.

IV.And ^aJesus being full of the Holy Ghost ^breturned from Jordan, and was led ^cby the Spirit into the wilderness, ^2dbeing forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. ³And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. ⁴And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That ^ddman shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. ^5eAnd the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of ^fthe world in a moment of time. ⁶And the devil said unto him, All this ^gpower will I give thee, and the glory of them: for ^gthat is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. ⁷If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. ⁸And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, ^hThou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. ⁹ⁱAnd he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: ¹⁰for it is written, ^kHe shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: ¹¹and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. ¹²And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, ^lThou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. ¹³And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him ^mfor a season.

¹⁴ⁿAnd Jesus returned ^oin the power of the Spirit into ^pGalilee: ^qand there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. ¹⁵And ^rhe taught in their synagogues, being ^sglorified of all. ^16tAnd he came to ^uNazareth, ^xwhere he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, ^rhe went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and ^ystood up for to read. ^17zAnd there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had ^aopened the book, he found the place where it was written, ^18bThe Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, ^cand recovering of sight to the blind, ^dto set at liberty them that are bruised, ^19bto preach the ^eacceptable year of the Lord. ²⁰And he ^aclosed the book, and he gave it again to the ^fminister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were ^gfastened on him. ²¹And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. ²²And all bare him witness, and wondered at the ^hgracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, ⁱIs not this Joseph’s son? ²³And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, ^kPhysician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in ^lCapernaum, do also here in ^mthy country. ²⁴And he said, Verily I say unto you, ⁿNo prophet is ^eaccepted in ^mhis own country. ²⁵But I tell you of a truth, ^omany widows were ^pin Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up ^qthree years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; ²⁶but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto ^oSarepta, a city of ^ooSidon, unto a woman that was a widow. ^27rAnd many lepers were ^pin Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. ²⁸And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, ²⁹and rose up, and ^rrthrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. ³⁰But he ^spassing through the midst of them went his way, ³¹and ^tcame down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days. ³²And ^uthey were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was ^xwith power.

³³And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, ³⁴saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? ^yI know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. ³⁵And Jesus ^yrebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. ³⁶And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for ^zwith authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out. ³⁷And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.

^38aAnd he arose ^bout of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. ³⁹And he stood over her, and ^crebuked the…