Luke 4:1-21 ▼

1 Now Jesus being full of the holy Spirit, returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted by the devil;

2 and He did eat nothing in all those days: and when they were ended, at last He was hungry.

3 And the devil said to Him, If thou art the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.

4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, that man shall not live by bread only, but on every word of God.

5 And the devil taking Him up into an high mountain, shewed Him all the kingdoms of the world in an instant,

6 and said to Him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for it is committed to me, and I give it to whomsoever I will.

7 Therefore, if thou wilt but worship me, they all shall be thine.

8 And Jesus answering him said with indignation, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.

9 And he brought Him to Jerusalem, and set him on a battlement of the temple, and said to Him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence;

10 for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee,

11 to keep thee, and they shall bear thee up in their hands, least thou dash thy foot against a stone.

12 And Jesus answered him, it is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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

14 And Jesus returned by the influence of the Spirit into Galilee: and a fame was spread through all the country round about concerning Him:

15 and He taught in their synagogues with universal applause.

16 And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: and according to his custom He went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and stood up to read.

17 And there was delivered to Him the book of the prophet Esaias; and opening the book, He found the place where it was written,

18 "The spirit of the Lord is upon me to the end, for which He hath anointed me: He hath sent me to publish good tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to release them that are bruised,

19 and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."

20 And He folded up the book, and gave it again to the minister, and sat down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon Him.

21 And He said unto them, this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.