Luke 4:16–44

¹⁶And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he entered, according to his custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read. ¹⁷And the book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and having unrolled the book he found the place where it was written, ¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to the blind sight, to send forth the crushed delivered, ¹⁹to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. ²⁰And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him. ²¹And he began to say to them, To-day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears. ²²And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph? ²³And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country. ²⁴And he said, Verily I say to you, that no prophet is acceptable in his own country. ²⁵But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land, ²⁶and to none of them was Elias sent but to Sarepta of Sidonia, to a woman that was a widow. ²⁷And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian. ²⁸And they were all filled with rage in the synagogue, hearing these things; ²⁹and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, so that they might throw him down the precipice; ³⁰but he, passing through the midst of them, went his way,

³¹and descended to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbaths. ³²And they were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was with authority. ³³And there was in the synagogue a man having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried with a loud voice, ³⁴saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. ³⁵And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out from him. And the demon, having thrown him down into the midst, came out from him without doing him any injury. ³⁶And astonishment came upon all, and they spoke to one another, saying, What word is this? for with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out. ³⁷And a rumour went out into every place of the country round concerning him. ³⁸And rising up out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon. But Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering under a bad fever; and they asked him for her. ³⁹And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and forthwith standing up she served them. ⁴⁰And when the sun went down, all, as many as had persons sick with divers diseases, brought them to him, and having laid his hands on every one of them, he healed them; ⁴¹and demons also went out from many, crying out and saying, Thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ. ⁴²And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place, and the crowds sought after him, and came up to him, and would have kept him back that he should not go from them. ⁴³But he said to them, I must needs announce the glad tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for for this I have been sent forth. ⁴⁴And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.