THEN Jesus full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by
the spirit into the wilderness, (2)being tempted forty days by the
devil; and did eat nothing during those days: and when they were ended,
afterwards he was hungry. (3)And the devil said to him, If thou art the
Son of God, command this stone that it become a loaf. (4)And Jesus
answered him, saying, It is written, "Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word of God."
(5)And the devil taking him up into an exceeding high mountain,
displayed before him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time:
(6)and the devil said unto him, I will give thee all this authority,
and the glory of these; for to me it is delivered, and to whomsoever I
will, I give it. (7)If therefore thou wilt worship before me, all shall
be thine. (8)And Jesus answering him, said, Get thee behind me, Satan,
for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and to him
alone shalt thou pay divine honour."
(9)And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a wing of the
temple, and said to him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thy self down
from hence: (10)for it is written, "He shall give his angels a charge
over thee, to guard thee safely; (11)and that in their hands they shall
bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone."
(12)And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, "Thou shalt not
tempt the Lord thy God." (13)And when the devil had closed all the
temptation, he departed from him for a season.
(14)And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and a
report went out into all the region round about concerning him. (15)And
he taught in their synagogues, being universally admired. (16)And he
came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he went, according to
his usual custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and rose up to
read. (17)And there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah:
and unrolling the volume, he found the passage where it is written,
(18)"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the work whereunto he hath
anointed me; he hath sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor; to
heal the contrite in heart; to proclaim liberty to the captives; and
restore sight to the blind; to send forth the bruised free from bonds;
(19)to publish the acceptable year of the Lord." (20)And rolling up the
volume, he gave it to the attendant officer, and sat down. And the eyes
of all who were in the synagogue were attentively fixed on him. (21)And
he began to say to them, To day this scripture is fulfilled in your
ears. (22)And all concurred in their testimony to him, and marvelled at
the gracious words which proceeded from his mouth. And they said, Is
not this the son of Joseph? (23)And he said unto them, Ye will probably
say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself! the works which we
have heard to have been performed by thee at Capernaum, do the like
here in thy own country. (24)But he said, Verily, I say unto you, that
no prophet is acceptable in his own country. (25)Now I tell you of a
certainty, that there were many widows in the days of Elias, in Israel,
when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, so that a
grievous famine was upon all the land. (26)And unto none of them was
Elias sent, but unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, to a widow woman.
(27)And many lepers were in Israel in the days of the prophet Elisha,
and no one of them was cleansed, but Naaman the Syrian. (28)And they
were all filled with rage in the synagogue, when they heard these
observations: (29)and rising up, dragged him out of the city, and led
him to the brow of the hill, on which their city was built, in order to
cast him down headlong: (30)but he passing through the midst of them,
went away.
(31)And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching
them on the sabbath. (32)And they were struck with astonishment at his
teaching; for his discourse was with authority. (33)And there was in
the synagogue a man, who had a spirit of an unclean devil, and he
roared out with a great cry, (34)saying, Let us alone; what have we to
do with thee, Jesus the Nazarean? art thou come to destroy us? I know
thee who thou art; the Holy One of God. (35)And Jesus rebuked him,
saying, Stop thy mouth, and come out of him. And the devil throwing him
down into the midst, came out of him, doing him no injury. (36)And
amazement seized on all present, and they spake one to another, saying,
What a word is this? for with authority and power he commandeth the
unclean spirits, and they come out. (37)And the fame of him went forth
into all the adjacent region.
(38)Then rising up out of the synagogue, he came into the house of
Simon: and Simon's mother-in-law was seized with a violent fever, and
they besought him on her behalf. (39)And standing over her, he charged
the fever _to depart_; and it left her: and immediately she arose, and
waited upon them.
(40)So when the sun was set, all who had any indisposed with various
diseases, brought them to him; and laying his hands severally on each
of them, he cured them. (41)And devils also went out of many, crying
out, and saying, Thou art the Messiah the Son of God. And rebuking
them, he suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was the
Messiah.
(42)And as the day was coming on, he went forth and departed into a
desert place: and the multitude sought him out, and came to him, and
would have detained him that he should not leave them. (43)But he said
unto them, I must preach the glad tidings of the kingdom of heaven in
other cities also: for on this service am I sent. (44)And he continued
preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.