Luke 4:1–21

Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness

4:1–13pp—Mt 4:1–11; Mk 1:12,13

4Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit,^u left the Jordan^v and was led by the Spirit^w into the wilderness, ²where for forty days^x he was tempted^a by the devil.^y He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

³The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God,^z tell this stone to become bread.”

⁴Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’^b”^a

⁵The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.^{b 6}And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me,^c and I can give it to anyone I want to. ⁷If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

⁸Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’^c”^d

⁹The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. ¹⁰For it is written:

“ ‘He will command his angels concerning you

to guard you carefully;

¹¹they will lift you up in their hands,

so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’^d”^e

¹²Jesus answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’^e”^f

¹³When the devil had finished all this tempting,^g he left him^h until an opportune time.

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

¹⁴Jesus returned to Galileeⁱ in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.^{j 15}He was teaching in their synagogues,^k and everyone praised him.

¹⁶He went to Nazareth,^l where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue,^m as was his custom. He stood up to read,^{n 17}and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

¹⁸“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,^o

because he has anointed me

to proclaim good news^p to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners

and recovery of sight for the blind,

to set the oppressed free,

¹⁹to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”^fq

²⁰Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.^r The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. ²¹He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled^s in your hearing.”