Luke 4:16–44

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.”

²²All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.^t

²³Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown^u what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’ ”^v

²⁴“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.^{w 25}I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.^{x 26}Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.^{y 27}And there were many in Israel with leprosy^g in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”^z

²⁸All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. ²⁹They got up, drove him out of the town,^a and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. ³⁰But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.^b

Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit

4:31–37pp—Mk 1:21–28

³¹Then he went down to Capernaum,^c a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. ³²They were amazed at his teaching,^d because his words had authority.^e

³³In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice, ³⁴“Go away! What do you want with us,^f Jesus of Nazareth?^g Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are^h—the Holy One of God!”ⁱ

³⁵“Be quiet!” Jesus said sternly.^j “Come out of him!” Then the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without injuring him.

³⁶All the people were amazed^k and said to each other, “What words these are! With authority^l and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!” ³⁷And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.^m

Jesus Heals Many

4:38–41pp—Mt 8:14–17 4:38–43pp—Mk 1:29–38

³⁸Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. ³⁹So he bent over her and rebukedⁿ the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

⁴⁰At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one,^o he healed them.^{p 41}Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!”^q But he rebuked^r them and would not allow them to speak,^s because they knew he was the Messiah.

⁴²At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. ⁴³But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God^t to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.” ⁴⁴And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.^u