1 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness
2 forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days, and
3 So the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, order this stone that it become bread!”
4 And Jesus replied to him, “It is written, ‘Man will not live on bread alone.’ ”
5 And he led him up
6 And the devil said to him, “I will give you all this domain and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I can give it to whomever I want.
7 So if you will worship before me, all
8 And Jesus answered
9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and had him stand on the highest point of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,
10 for it is written,
11 and
12 And Jesus answered
13 And
14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news about him went out throughout all the surrounding region.
15 And he began to teach
16 And he came to Nazareth, where
17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll he found the place where it was written,
18 “The Spirit of the Lord
19 to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.”
20 And he rolled up the scroll
21 And he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
22 And they were all speaking well of him, and were astonished at the gracious words that were coming out of his mouth. And they were saying, “Is this man not the son of Joseph?”
23 And he said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ Whatever we have heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also!”
24 And he said, “Truly I say to you that no prophet is acceptable in his
25 But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months while a great famine took place over all the land.
26 And Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath
27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was made clean except Naaman the Syrian.”
28 And all
29 And they stood up
30 But he passed through their midst
31 And he came down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath.
32 And they were astounded at his teaching, because
33 And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon,
34 “Ha!
35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” And
36 And amazement came upon
37 And news about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
38 And
39 And he stood over her
40 Now
41 And demons also were coming out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Son of God!” And he rebuked
42 And
43 But he said to them, “It is necessary
44 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.