The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Luke 04
1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned
from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit
into the wilderness
2 for forty days, being tempted by the
devil. He ate nothing in those days.
Afterward, when they were completed, he was
hungry.
3 The devil said to him, “If you are the
Son of God, command this stone to become
bread.”
4 Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written,
‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but
by every word of God.’ ”*
5 The devil, leading him up on a high
mountain, showed him allthe kingdoms of
the world in a moment of time.
6 The devil said to him, “I will give you
all this authority and their glory, for it
has been delivered to me, and I give it to
whomever I want.
7 If you therefore will worship before
me, it will all be yours.”
8 Jesus answered him, “Get behind me,
Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship
the Lord your God, and you shall serve him
only.’ ”*
9 He led him to Jerusalem and set him on
the pinnacle ofthe temple, and said to him,
“If you are the Son of God, cast yourself
down from here,
10 for it is written, ‘He will put his
angels in charge of you, to guard you;’
11 and,‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest perhaps you dash your foot against
a stone.’ ”*
12 Jesus answering, said to him, “It has
been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord
your God.’ ”*
13 When the devil had completed every
temptation, he departed from him until
another time.
14 Jesus returned in the power of the
Spirit into Galilee, and news about him
spread through all the surrounding area.
15 He taught in their synagogues, being
glorified by all.
16 He came to Nazareth, where he had
been brought up. He entered, as was his
custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath
day, and stood up to read.
17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was
handed to him. He opened the book, and
found the place where it was written,
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me to preach
good news to the poor. He has sentme
to heal the broken hearted,†
to proclaim release to the captives,
recovering of sight to the blind,
to deliver those who are crushed,
19 and to proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord.”*
20 He closed the book, gave it back to the
attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in
the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 He began to tell them, “Today, this
Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
22 All testified about him and wondered
at the gracious words which proceeded
out of his mouth; and they said, “Isn’t this
Joseph’s son?”
23 He said to them, “Doubtless you will
tell me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal
yourself! Whatever we have heard done at
Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”
24 He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no
prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
25 But truly I tell you, there were many
widows inIsraelinthe days ofElijah, when
the sky was shut up three years and six
months, whena greatfamine came over all
the land.
26 Elijah was sentto none ofthem, except
to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a
woman who was a widow.
27 There were many lepers in Israel in
the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one
of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the
Syrian.”
28 They were all filled with wrath in the
synagogue as they heard these things.
29 They rose up, threw him out of the
city, and led him to the brow of the hill
that their city was built on, that they might
throw him off the cliff.
30 But he, passing through the middle of
them, went his way.
31 He came down to Capernaum, a city
of Galilee. He was teaching them on the
Sabbath day,
32 and they were astonished at his
teaching, for his word was with authority.
33 In the synagogue there was a man who
had a spirit of an unclean demon; and he
cried out with a loud voice,
34 saying, “Ah! what have we to do with
you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to
destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy
One of God!”
35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent
and come out of him!” When the demon
had thrown him down in the middle of
them, he came out ofhim, having done him
no harm.
36 Amazement came on all and they
spoke together, one with another, saying,
“Whatis this word? For with authority and
power he commands the unclean spirits,
and they come out!”
37 News about him went out into every
place of the surrounding region.
38 He roseup from the synagogue andentered
into Simon’s house. Simon’s motherin-law
was afflicted with a great fever, and
they begged him to help her.
39 He stood over her and rebuked the
fever, and it left her. Immediately she rose
up and served them.
40 When the sun was setting, all those
who had any sick with various diseases
broughtthem to him; and he laid his hands
on every one of them, and healed them.
41 Demons also came out of many, crying
out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son
of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow
them to speak, because they knew that he
was the Christ.
42 When it was day, he departed and
went into an uninhabited place and the
multitudes looked for him, and came to
him, and held on to him, so that he
wouldn’t go away from them.
43 But he said to them, “I must preach the
good news of God’s Kingdom to the other
cities also. For this reason I have been
sent.”
44 He was preaching inthe synagogues of
Galilee.