Luke 4:1–30

The Temptation of Jesus

^1aNow Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, ^breturned from the Jordan and was being led around ¹by the Spirit in the wilderness

²for ^aforty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had finished, He was hungry.

³And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

⁴And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘^aMan shall not live on bread alone.’”

^5aAnd he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of ^1bthe world in a moment of time.

⁶And the devil said to Him, “I will give You all this ^adominion and ¹its glory, ^bfor it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.

⁷“Therefore if You ¹worship before me, it shall all be Yours.”

⁸And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is written, ‘^aYou shall worship the ¹Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

^9aAnd he led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here,

¹⁰for it is written,

‘^aHe will command His angels concerning You to guard You,’

¹¹and,

‘^aOn their Hands they will bear You up,

Lest You strike Your foot against a stone.’”

¹²And Jesus answered and said to him, “It is said, ‘^aYou shall not put the ¹Lord your God to the test.’”

¹³And when the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

Jesus Begins His Ministry

¹⁴And ^aJesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and ^bnews about Him spread through all the surrounding district.

¹⁵And He was ^ateaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

¹⁶And He came to ^aNazareth, where He had been brought up, and as was His custom, ^bHe entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and ^cstood up to read.

¹⁷And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the scroll and found the place where it was written,

¹⁸“^aThe Spirit of the ¹Lord is upon Me,

Because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor.

He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives,

And recovery of sight to the blind,

To set free those who are oppressed,

^19aTo proclaim the favorable year of the ¹Lord.”

²⁰And He ^aclosed the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and ^bsat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him.

²¹And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ¹hearing.”

²²And all were ¹speaking well of Him and marveling at the ²gracious words which were coming forth from His lips, and they were saying, “^aIs this not Joseph’s son?”

²³And He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard took place ^aat Capernaum, do also here in ^byour hometown.’”

²⁴And He said, “Truly I say to you, ^ano prophet is welcome in his hometown.

²⁵“But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel ^ain the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land,

²⁶and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but ^aonly to ¹Zarephath, in the land of ^bSidon, to a woman who was a widow.

²⁷“And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, but ^aonly Naaman the Syrian.”

²⁸And all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things,

²⁹and they stood up and ^adrove Him out of the city, and led Him to the edge of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff.

³⁰But ^apassing through their midst, He went on His way.