Luke 4:1–30

The Temptation of Jesus

^1aJesus, full of the Holy Spirit, ^breturned from the Jordan and was 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 ended, He became 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 domain and ¹its glory; ^afor 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.”

⁸Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘^aYou shall worship the Lord 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,

So that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’ ”

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

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

Jesus’ Public Ministry

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

¹⁵And He began ^ateaching in their synagogues and was praised by all.

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 ¹book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the book and found the place where it was written,

¹⁸“^aThe Spirit of the Lord 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 Lord.”

²⁰And He ^aclosed the ¹book, 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 wondering at the ²gracious words which ³were falling 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 was done ^aat Capernaum, do here in ^byour hometown as well.’ ”

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 got up and ^adrove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow 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 His way.