Luke 4:1-21 ▼

1 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

2 and was there forty days, to be tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days; and when they were ended, he was afterward hungry.

3 And the devil said to him: If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.

4 And Jesus answered him, and said: It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

5 And the devil took him up into a high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, in a moment of time.

6 And the devil said to him: I will give you all the authority and glory of these, for it is delivered to me; and to whomever I will, I give it.

7 If, therefore, you will bow with reverence before me, all shall be yours.

8 And Jesus answered and said to him: Get behind me, Satan; it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.

9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him: If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from this place;

10 for it is written, He will give his angels charge concerning you, to guard you carefully;

11 and in their hands they shall take you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.

12 And Jesus answered and said to him: It is said, You shall not put the Lord your God to the proof.

13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a time.

14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and his fame went throughout the whole of that region.

15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and, as his custom was, he entered the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and stood up to read.

17 And the volume of Isaiah the prophet was given to him: and when he had unrolled the volume, he found the place where it was written:

18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken hearted; to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind; to set free the oppressed;

19 to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

20 And he rolled up the volume, and save it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all that were in the synagogue were earnestly fixed upon him.

21 And he began to say to them: This scripture which you have heard, is this day fulfilled.