Luke 4:16–44

¹⁶And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read; ¹⁷and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written: ¹⁸‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance, ¹⁹To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.’ ²⁰And having folded the roll, having given it back to the officer, he sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were gazing on him. ²¹And he began to say unto them—‘To-day hath this writing been fulfilled in your ears;’ ²²and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, ‘Is not this the son of Joseph?’ ²³And he said unto them, ‘Certainly ye will say to me this simile, Physician, heal thyself; as great things as we heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country;’ ²⁴and he said, ‘Verily I say to you—No prophet is accepted in his own country; ²⁵and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land, ²⁶and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but—to Sarepta of Sidon, unto a woman, a widow; ²⁷and many lepers were in the time of Elisha the prophet, in Israel, and none of them was cleansed, but—Naaman the Syrian.’ ²⁸And all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, hearing these things, ²⁹and having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built—to cast him down headlong, ³⁰and he, having gone through the midst of them, went away.

³¹And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbaths, ³²and they were astonished at his teaching, because his word was with authority. ³³And in the synagogue was a man, having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a great voice, ³⁴saying, ‘Away, what—to us and to thee, Jesus, O Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art—the Holy One of God.’ ³⁵And Jesus did rebuke him, saying, ‘Be silenced, and come forth out of him;’ and the demon having cast him into the midst, came forth from him, having hurt him nought; ³⁶and amazement came upon all, and they were speaking together, with one another, saying, ‘What is this word, that with authority and power he doth command the unclean spirits, and they come forth?’ ³⁷and there was going forth a fame concerning him to every place of the region round about. ³⁸And having risen out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon, and the mother-in-law of Simon was pressed with a great fever, and they did ask him about her, ³⁹and having stood over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her, and presently, having risen, she was ministering to them. ⁴⁰And at the setting of the sun, all, as many as had any ailing with manifold sicknesses, brought them unto him, and he on each one of them his hands having put, did heal them. ⁴¹And demons also were coming forth from many, crying out and saying—‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of God;’ and rebuking, he did not suffer them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ. ⁴²And day having come, having gone forth, he went on to a desert place, and the multitudes were seeking him, and they came unto him, and were staying him—not to go on from them, ⁴³and he said unto them—‘Also to the other cities it behoveth me to proclaim good news of the reign of God, because for this I have been sent;’ ⁴⁴and he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

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