Jesus Is Tested in
the
Wilderness
1Jesus, full of the Holy
Spirit,
left the
Jordan and
was led by
the Spirit
into the
wilderness,
2 where
for forty
days he
was
tempted
by the
devil. He
ate
nothing
during
those
days, and
at the end
of them he
was
hungry.
3 The devil said to him,
“If you
are the
Son of
God, tell
this stone
to become
bread.”
4 Jesus answered, “It is
written:
‘Man shall
not live
on bread
alone.’”
5 The devil led him up to
a high
place and
showed him
in an
instant
all the
kingdoms
of the
world.
6 And
he said to
him, “I
will give
you all
their
authority
and
splendor;
it has
been given
to me, and
I can give
it to
anyone I
want to.
7 If you
worship
me, it
will all
be yours.”
8 Jesus answered, “It is
written:
‘Worship
the Lord
your God
and serve
him only.’”
9 The 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.
10 For
it is
written:
“‘He will command his
angels
concerning
you
to
guard you
carefully;
11 they
will lift
you up in
their
hands,
so
that you
will not
strike
your foot
against a
stone.’”
12 Jesus answered, “It is
said: ‘Do
not put
the Lord
your God
to the
test.’”
13 When the devil had
finished
all this
tempting,
he left
him until
an
opportune
time.
Jesus Rejected at
Nazareth
14 Jesus returned to
Galilee in
the power
of the
Spirit,
and news
about him
spread
through
the whole
countryside.
15 He was
teaching
in their
synagogues,
and
everyone
praised
him.
16 He went to Nazareth,
where he
had been
brought
up, and on
the
Sabbath
day he
went into
the
synagogue,
as was his
custom. He
stood up
to read,
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,
because
he has
anointed
me
to
proclaim
good news
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,
19 to
proclaim
the year
of the
Lord’s
favor.”
20 Then he rolled up the
scroll,
gave it
back to
the
attendant
and sat
down. The
eyes of
everyone
in the
synagogue
were
fastened
on him.
21 He
began by
saying to
them,
“Today
this
scripture
is
fulfilled
in your
hearing.”
22 All spoke well of him
and were
amazed at
the
gracious
words that
came from
his lips.
“Isn’t
this
Joseph’s
son?” they
asked.
23 Jesus said to them,
“Surely
you will
quote this
proverb to
me:
‘Physician,
heal
yourself!’
And you
will tell
me, ‘Do
here in
your
hometown
what we
have heard
that you
did in
Capernaum.’”
24 “Truly I tell you,” he
continued,
“no
prophet is
accepted
in his
hometown.
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.
26 Yet
Elijah was
not sent
to any of
them, but
to a widow
in
Zarephath
in the
region of
Sidon.
27 And
there were
many in
Israel
with
leprosy
in the
time of
Elisha the
prophet,
yet not
one of
them was
cleansed—only
Naaman the
Syrian.”
28 All the people in the
synagogue
were
furious
when they
heard
this.
29 They
got up,
drove him
out of the
town, and
took him
to the
brow of
the hill
on which
the town
was built,
in order
to throw
him off
the cliff.
30 But he
walked
right
through
the crowd
and went
on his
way.
Jesus Drives Out
an Impure
Spirit
31 Then he went down to
Capernaum,
a town in
Galilee,
and on the
Sabbath he
taught the
people.
32 They
were
amazed at
his
teaching,
because
his words
had
authority.
33 In 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, Jesus
of
Nazareth?
Have you
come to
destroy
us? I know
who you
are—the
Holy One
of God!”
35 “Be quiet!” Jesus said
sternly.
“Come out
of him!”
Then the
demon
threw the
man down
before
them all
and came
out
without
injuring
him.
36 All the people were
amazed and
said to
each
other,
“What
words
these are!
With
authority
and power
he gives
orders to
impure
spirits
and they
come out!”
37 And the
news about
him spread
throughout
the
surrounding
area.
Jesus Heals Many
38 Jesus 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.
39 So he
bent over
her and
rebuked
the fever,
and it
left her.
She got up
at once
and began
to wait on
them.
40 At sunset, the people
brought to
Jesus all
who had
various
kinds of
sickness,
and laying
his hands
on each
one, he
healed
them.
41 Moreover,
demons
came out
of many
people,
shouting,
“You are
the Son of
God!” But
he rebuked
them and
would not
allow them
to speak,
because
they knew
he was the
Messiah.
42 At 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.
43 But
he said,
“I must
proclaim
the good
news of
the
kingdom of
God to the
other
towns
also,
because
that is
why I was
sent.”
44 And
he kept on
preaching
in the
synagogues
of Judea.