¹Jesus , full of the Holy Spirit , returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

²for forty days , being tempted by the devil . He ate nothing in those days . Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry .

³The devil said to him , “If you are the Son of God , command this stone to become bread.”

⁴Jesus answered him , saying , “ It is written , ‘ Man shall not live by bread alone , but by every word of God .’”[#Deuteronomy 8:3]

⁵The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time .

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 .

⁷If you therefore will worship before me , it will all be yours .”

⁸Jesus answered him , “ Get behind me , Satan! For it is written , ‘ You shall worship the Lord your God , and you shall serve him only .’”[#Deuteronomy 6:13]

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 ,

¹⁰for it is written ,

‘He will put his angels in charge of you , to guard you ;’

¹¹and ,

‘On their hands they will bear you up ,

lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone .’”

¹²Jesus answering, said to him , “ It has been said , ‘ You shall not tempt the Lord your God .’”[#Deuteronomy 6:16]

¹³When the devil had completed every temptation , he departed from him until another time .

¹⁴Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee , and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.

¹⁵He taught in their synagogues , being glorified by all .

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.

¹⁷The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him . He opened the book , and found the place where it was written ,

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,

¹⁹and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord .”[#Isaiah 61:1-2]

²⁰He closed the book , gave it back to the attendant , and sat down . The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him .

²¹He began to tell them , “ Today , this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing .”

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 ?”

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 .’”

²⁴He said , “Most certainly I tell you , no prophet is acceptable in his hometown .

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 .

²⁶Elijah was sent to none of them , except to Zarephath , in the land of Sidon , to a woman who was a widow .

²⁷There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet , yet not one of them was cleansed , except Naaman , the Syrian .”

²⁸They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things .

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 .

³⁰But he , passing through the middle of them , went his way .

³¹He came down to Capernaum , a city of Galilee . He was teaching them on the Sabbath day ,

³²and they were astonished at his teaching , for his word was with authority .

³³In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon ; and he cried out with a loud voice ,

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 !”

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.

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 !”

³⁷News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region .

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 .

³⁹He stood over her and rebuked the fever , and it left her . Immediately she rose up and served them .

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 .

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 .

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 .

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 .”

⁴⁴He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee .