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Luke 4 📜 📕 ↷
Temptation of Jesus
1 AND JESUS full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan, & was driven in the spirit into the desert.📜💬📚
2 forty days, and was tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was an hungered.📜💬📚
Not Bread but the Word
3 And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread.📜💬📚
4 And JESUS made answer unto him: It is written, That not in bread alone shall man live, but in every word of God.📜💬📚
Satan Offers World's Kingdoms
5 And the devil brought him into an high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the whole world in a moment of time;📜💬📚
6 and he said to him: To thee will I give this whole power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I do give them.📜💬📚
7 Thou therefore if thou wilt adore before me, they shall all be thine.📜💬📚
8 And JESUS answering said to him: It is written, Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God & him only shalt thou serve.📜💬📚
9 And he brought him into Jerusalem, & set him upon the pinnacle of the Temple; and he said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thy self from hence downward.📜💬📚
10 For it is written, that He hath given his Angels charge of thee, that they preserve thee:📜💬📚
11 and that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps thou knock thy foot against a stone.📜💬📚
12 And JESUS answering said to him: It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.📜💬📚
13 And all the tentation being ended, the devil departed from him until a time.📜💬📚
Jesus Begins His Ministry
14 And JESUS returned in the force of the spirit into Galilee, and the same went forth through the whole country of him.📜💬📚
15 And he taught in their Synagogues, and was magnified of all.📜💬📚
Rejection at Nazareth
16 And he came to Nazareth where he was brought up: and he entered according to his custom on the Sabboth day into the Synagogue; and he rose up to read.📜💬📚
17 And the book of Esay the Prophet was delivered unto him. And as he unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written:📜💬📚
18 The Spirit of the Lord upon me, for which he anointed me, to evangelize unto the poor he sent me, to heal the contrite of heart,📜💬📚
19 to preach to the captives remission, and sight to the blind, to dismiss the bruised unto remission, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of retribution.📜💬📚
20 And when he had folded the book, he rendered it to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all in the Synagogue were bent upon him.📜💬📚
21 And he began to say unto them: That this day is fulfilled this scripture in your ears.📜💬📚
22 And all gave testimony to him; and they marveled in the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth, and they said: Is not this Joseph's son?📜💬📚
23 And he said to them: Certes you will say to me this similitude, Physician, cure thy self: as great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy country.📜💬📚
24 And he said: Amen I say to you, that no Prophet is accepted in his own country.📜💬📚
25 In truth I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when the Heaven was shut three years and six months, when there was a great famine made in the whole earth:📜💬📚
26 And to none of them was Elias sent, but into Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman.📜💬📚
27 And there were many lepers in Israel under Elisaeus the Prophet; and none of them was made clean but Naaman the Syrian.📜💬📚
28 And all in the Synagogue were filled with anger, hearing these things.📜💬📚
29 And they rose, and cast him out of the city: and they brought him to the edge of the hill, where upon their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.📜💬📚
30 But he passing through the midst of them, went his way.📜💬📚
Jesus Expels an Unclean Spirit
31 And he went down into Capharnaum a city of Galilee; and there he taught them on the Sabboths.📜💬📚
32 And they were astonished at his doctrine; because his talk was in power.📜💬📚
33 And in the Synagogue there was a man having an unclean devil, and he cried out with a loud voice.📜💬📚
34 Saying: Let be, what to us and thee JESUS of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Saint of God.📜💬📚
35 And JESUS rebuked him, saying: Hold thy peace, & go out of him. And when the devil had thrown him into the midst, he went out of him, and hurted him nothing.📜💬📚
36 And there came fear upon all, and they talked together one with another, saying: What word is this, that in power and virtue he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they go out?📜💬📚
37 And the same of him was published into every place of the country.📜💬📚
Jesus Heals at Peter's House
38 And JESUS rising up out of the Synagogue, entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was holden with a great fever; and they besought him for her.📜💬📚
39 And standing over her, he commanded the fever, and it left her. And incontinent rising, she ministered to them.📜💬📚
40 And when the sun was down, all that had diseased of sundry maladies, brought them to him. But he imposing hands upon every one, cured them.📜💬📚
41 And devils went out from many, crying and saying: That thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them he suffered them not to speak, that they knew he was Christ.📜💬📚
Jesus Preaches in Judea
42 And when it was day, going forth he went into a desert place; & the multitudes sought him, and came even unto him; and they held him that he should not depart from them.📜💬📚
43 To whom he said: That to other cities also must I evangelize the Kingdom of God; because therefore I was sent.📜💬📚
44 And he was preaching in the Synagogues of Galilee.📜💬📚
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