Luke 4:1-21 ▼

1 And Jesus, full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, tempted by the devil forty days.

2 And He ate nothing during those days; and they having been completed, He afterward hungered.

3 And the devil said to Him, If thou art the Son of God, speak to this stone, in order that it may become bread.

4 And Jesus responded to him, saying; It has been written, That man shall not live upon bread alone, but upon every word of God.

5 And the devil leading Him up, he showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

6 And the devil said to Him, I will give all the authority and glories of these to thee: because it has been given unto me: and I give it to whom I may wish;

7 then if thou mayest worship before me all shall belong to thee.

8 And Jesus responding said to him; It has been written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve.

9 And he led Him into Jerusalem, and placed Him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, If thou art the Son of God cast thyself down from thence;

10 for it has been written, That He will give His angels charge concerning thee, in order to guard thee,

11 and they will bear thee upon their hands, lest at any time thou mayest dash thy foot against a stone.

12 And Jesus responding said to him; That it has been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

13 And the devil having perfected every temptation, departed from Him for a season.

14 And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit into Galilee. And the fame concerning Him went throughout the whole country.

15 And He was teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

16 And He came into Nazareth, where He was brought up: and according to the custom to Him, He came into the synagogue on the Sabbath-day, and stood up to read.

17 And the Book of Isaiah the prophet was given to Him; and having opened the book, He found the place where it was written,

18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised,

19 to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

20 And having closed the book, and giving it back to the officer, He sat down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on Him.

21 And He began to say to them; This day has this Scripture been fulfilled in your ears.