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.
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.”[f]
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[g] 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,
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[a] 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.’[d]”
12 Jesus
answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’[e]”
13 When
the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.
