Luke 4

1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wildernessCross-references: 1Ki 18:12 · 1Ki 19:4 · Isa 11:2 · Isa 61:1 · Ezek 3:14 · Matt 3:16 · +12 more

2for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Ex 24:18 · Ex 34:28 · Deut 9:9 · Deut 9:18 · Deut 9:25 · +9 more

3The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”Cross-references: Matt 4:3 · Luke 3:22

4Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”Cross-references: Ex 23:25 · Deut 8:3 · Isa 8:20 · Jer 49:11 · Matt 4:4 · Matt 6:25 · +6 more

5The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.Cross-references: Job 20:5 · Ps 73:19 · Matt 4:8 · Matt 24:14 · Mark 4:8 · 1Cor 7:31 · +5 more

6The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I want.Cross-references: Esth 5:11 · Isa 5:14 · Isa 23:9 · John 8:44 · John 12:31 · John 14:30 · +8 more

7If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.”Cross-references: Ps 72:11 · Isa 45:14 · Isa 46:6 · Matt 2:11 · Luke 8:28 · Luke 17:16 · +3 more

8Jesus answered him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”Cross-references: Deut 6:13 · Deut 10:20 · 1Sam 7:3 · 2Ki 19:15 · Ps 83:18 · Isa 2:11 · +7 more

9He led him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,Cross-references: 2Chr 3:4 · Job 2:6 · Matt 4:5 · Matt 8:29 · Luke 4:3 · Rom 1:4

10for it is written, ‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;’Cross-references: Ps 91:11 · Luke 4:3 · Luke 4:8 · 2Cor 11:14 · Heb 1:14

11and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’”Cross-references: Ps 91:12

12Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”Cross-references: Deut 6:16 · Ps 95:9 · Ps 106:14 · Mal 3:15 · Matt 4:7 · 1Cor 10:9 · +1 more

13When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.Cross-references: Matt 4:11 · John 14:30 · Heb 4:15 · James 4:7

14Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.Cross-references: Matt 4:12 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 9:26 · Mark 1:14 · Mark 1:28 · Luke 4:37 · +2 more

15He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.Cross-references: Isa 55:5 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 9:8 · Matt 9:35 · Matt 13:54 · Mark 1:27 · +4 more

16He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.Cross-references: Matt 2:23 · Matt 13:54 · Mark 6:1 · Luke 1:26 · Luke 2:39 · Luke 2:42 · +6 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

17The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,Cross-references: Isa 61:1 · Luke 20:42 · Acts 7:42 · Acts 13:15 · Acts 13:27Examined: The Prophecy Loom →

18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · 2Chr 34:27 · Ps 2:2 · Ps 2:6 · Ps 34:18 · Ps 45:7 · +47 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

19and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”Cross-references: Lev 25:8 · Lev 25:50 · Num 36:4 · Isa 61:2 · Isa 63:4 · Luke 19:42 · +1 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

20He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.Cross-references: Matt 5:1 · Matt 13:1 · Matt 20:26 · Matt 26:55 · Luke 4:17 · Luke 5:3 · +5 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

21He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”Cross-references: Matt 13:14 · Luke 10:23 · John 4:25 · John 5:39 · Acts 2:16 · Acts 2:29 · +1 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

22All testified about him and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”Cross-references: Ps 45:2 · Ps 45:4 · Prov 10:32 · Prov 16:21 · Prov 25:11 · Eccl 12:10 · +10 more

23He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”Cross-references: Matt 4:13 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 11:23 · Matt 13:54 · Mark 1:21 · Mark 2:1 · +10 more

24He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.Cross-references: Matt 13:57 · Mark 6:4 · John 4:41 · John 4:44 · Acts 22:3 · Acts 22:18

25But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:1 · 1Ki 18:1 · Isa 55:8 · Matt 20:15 · Mark 7:26 · Luke 10:21 · +5 more

26Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:9 · Obad 1:20 · Matt 11:21

27There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”Cross-references: 1Ki 19:19 · 2Ki 5:1 · Job 21:22 · Job 33:13 · Job 36:23 · Dan 4:35 · +2 more

28They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things.Cross-references: 2Chr 16:10 · 2Chr 24:20 · Jer 37:15 · Jer 38:6 · Luke 6:11 · Luke 11:53 · +4 more

29They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.Cross-references: Num 15:35 · 2Chr 25:12 · Ps 37:14 · Ps 37:32 · John 8:37 · John 8:40 · +6 more

30But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.Cross-references: John 8:59 · John 10:39 · John 18:6 · Acts 12:18

31He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,Cross-references: Matt 4:13 · Matt 10:23 · Mark 1:21 · Luke 4:23 · Acts 13:50 · Acts 14:6 · +7 more

32and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.Cross-references: Jer 23:28 · Matt 7:28 · Mark 1:22 · Luke 4:36 · John 6:63 · 1Cor 2:4 · +6 more

33In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,Cross-references: Mark 1:23

34saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Ps 16:10 · Dan 9:24 · Matt 8:29 · Mark 1:24 · Mark 1:34 · +14 more

35Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.Cross-references: Ps 50:16 · Zech 3:2 · Matt 8:26 · Matt 17:18 · Mark 1:26 · Mark 3:11 · +9 more

36Amazement came on all and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”Cross-references: Matt 9:33 · Matt 12:22 · Mark 1:27 · Mark 7:37 · Mark 16:17 · Luke 4:32 · +3 more

37News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.Cross-references: Isa 52:13 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 9:26 · Mark 1:28 · Mark 1:45 · Mark 6:14 · +1 more

38He rose up from the synagogue and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him to help her.Cross-references: Matt 8:14 · Matt 15:23 · Mark 1:29 · Luke 7:3 · John 11:3 · John 11:22 · +2 more

39He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.Cross-references: Ps 116:12 · Luke 4:35 · Luke 4:41 · Luke 8:2 · Luke 8:24 · 2Cor 5:14

40When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.Cross-references: Matt 4:23 · Matt 8:16 · Matt 11:5 · Matt 14:13 · Mark 1:32 · Mark 3:10 · +6 more

41Demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.Cross-references: Matt 4:3 · Matt 8:29 · Matt 26:63 · Mark 1:25 · Mark 1:34 · Mark 3:11 · +4 more

42When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.Cross-references: Matt 14:13 · Mark 1:35 · Mark 1:45 · Mark 6:33 · Luke 6:12 · Luke 8:37 · +4 more

43But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”Cross-references: Isa 42:1 · Isa 48:16 · Isa 61:1 · Mark 1:14 · Mark 1:38 · John 6:38 · +4 more

44He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.Cross-references: Matt 4:23 · Mark 1:39 · Luke 4:15