Luke 4:16–44

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.

³¹And ^aHe came down to ^bCapernaum, a city of Galilee, and He was teaching them on the Sabbath;

³²and ^athey were amazed at His teaching, for ^bHis ¹message was with authority.

³³In the synagogue there was a man ¹possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

³⁴“Let us alone! ^1aWhat business do we have with each other, Jesus ²of ^bNazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

³⁵But Jesus ^arebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, he came out of him without doing him any harm.

³⁶And amazement came upon them all, and they began talking with one another saying, “What is ¹this message? For ^awith authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and they come out.”

³⁷And ^athe report about Him was spreading into every locality in the surrounding district.

Many Are Healed

^38aThen He got up and left the synagogue, and entered Simon’s home. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ^bsuffering from a high fever, and they asked Him ¹to help her.

³⁹And standing over her, He ^arebuked the fever, and it left her; and she immediately got up and ¹waited on them.

^40aWhile ^bthe sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and ^claying His hands on each one of them, He was ^dhealing them.

⁴¹Demons also were coming out of many, shouting, “You are ^athe Son of God!” But ^brebuking them, He would ^cnot allow them to speak, because they knew Him to be ¹the Christ.

^42aWhen day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place; and the crowds were searching for Him, and came to Him and tried to keep Him from going away from them.

⁴³But He said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, ^afor I was sent for this purpose.”

⁴⁴So He kept on preaching in the synagogues ^aof ¹Judea.