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1 | And Jesus
being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit
into the wilderness, |
2 |
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing:
and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. |
3 | And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of
God, command this stone that it be made bread. |
4 | And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written,
That
man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. |
5 | And the devil, taking him up into an
high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of
time. |
6 | And the devil
said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that
is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. |
7 | If thou therefore wilt worship me, all
shall be thine. |
8 | And
Jesus answered and said unto him, 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 pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son
of God, cast thyself down from hence: |
10 | For it is written,
He shall give his angels charge over
thee, to keep thee: |
11 |
And 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 ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. |
14 | And Jesus returned in the
power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all
the region round about. |
15 |
And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. |
16 | And he came to Nazareth, where he had
been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the
sabbath day, and stood up for to read. |
17 | And there was delivered unto him the book of the
prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it
was written, |
18 |
The
Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance
to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them
that are bruised, |
19 |
To
preach the acceptable year of the Lord. |
20 | And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the
minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue
were fastened on him. |
21 |
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your
ears. |
22 | And all bare
him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his
mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son? |
23 | And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me
this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in
Capernaum, do also here in thy country. |
24 | And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is
accepted in his own country. |
25
| But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of
Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great
famine was throughout all the land; |
26 | But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city
of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. |
27 | And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus
the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. |
28 | And all they in the synagogue,
when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, |
29 | And rose up, and thrust him out of the
city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that
they might cast him down headlong. |
30 | But he passing through the midst of them went his way, |
31 | And came down to Capernaum, a
city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days. |
32 | And they were astonished at his
doctrine: for his word was with power. |
33 | And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a
spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, |
34 | Saying, Let us alone; what have we to
do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee
who thou art; the Holy One of God. |
35 | And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of
him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and
hurt him not. |
36 | And
they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, 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 out into every place of the country round about. |
38 | And he arose out of the synagogue, and
entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great
fever; and they besought him for her. |
39 | And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it
left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them. |
40 | Now when the sun was setting, all they
that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his
hands on every one of them, and healed them. |
41 | And devils also came out of many, crying out, and
saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not
to speak: for they knew that he was Christ. |
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43
| And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other
cities also: for therefore am I sent. |
44 | And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee. |
