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Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

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The Temptation of Jesus

But Jesus, full of [the] Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

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where for forty days he was tempteda by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

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forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.

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

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And the devil said to him, If thou be Son of God, speak to this stone, that it become bread.

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Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’b”

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And Jesus answered unto him saying, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

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The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

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And [the devil], leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.

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And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to.

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And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power, and their glory; for it is given up to me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.

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

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If therefore *thou* wilt do homage before me, all [of it] shall be thine.

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Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’c”

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And Jesus answering him said, It is written, Thou shalt do homage to [the] Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.

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The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here.

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And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the edge of the temple, and said to him, If thou be Son of God, cast thyself down hence;

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For it is written:
“ ‘He will command his angels concerning you
to guard you carefully;

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for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee to keep thee;

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they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’d”

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and on [their] hands shall they bear thee, lest in any wise thou strike thy foot against a stone.

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Jesus answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’e”

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And Jesus answering said to him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God.

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When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.

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And the devil, having completed every temptation, departed from him for a time.

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Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.

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Jesus Begins His Ministry

And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee; and a rumour went out into the whole surrounding country about him;

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He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.

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and *he* taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

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He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read,

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Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he entered, according to his custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.

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and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

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And [the] book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and having unrolled the book he found the place where it was written,

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“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,

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[The] Spirit of [the] Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to [the] poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to [the] blind sight, to send forth [the] crushed delivered,

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to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”f

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to preach [the] acceptable year of [the] Lord.

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Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him.

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And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.

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He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

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And he began to say to them, To-day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.

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All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.

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And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

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Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’ ”

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And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.

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“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.

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And he said, Verily I say to you, that no prophet is acceptable in his [own] country.

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I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.

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But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,

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Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.

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and to none of them was Elias sent but to Sarepta of Sidonia, to a woman [that was] a widow.

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And there were many in Israel with leprosyg in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed — only Naaman the Syrian.”

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And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.

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All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.

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And they were all filled with rage in the synagogue, hearing these things;

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They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff.

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and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, so that they might throw him down the precipice;

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But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.

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but *he*, passing through the midst of them, went his way,

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Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit

Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people.

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Jesus Expels an Evil Spirit

and descended to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbaths.

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They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority.

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And they were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was with authority.

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In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice,

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And there was in the synagogue a man having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried with a loud voice,

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“Go away! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — the Holy One of God!”

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saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy [One] of God.

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“Be quiet!” Jesus said sternly. “Come out of him!” Then the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without injuring him.

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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out from him. And the demon, having thrown him down into the midst, came out from him without doing him any injury.

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All the people were amazed and said to each other, “What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!”

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And astonishment came upon all, and they spoke to one another, saying, What word [is] this? for with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.

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And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.

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And a rumour went out into every place of the country round concerning him.

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Jesus Heals Many

Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her.

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Jesus Heals at Peter's House

And rising up out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon. But Simon's mother-in-law was suffering under a bad fever; and they asked him for her.

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So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

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And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and forthwith standing up she served them.

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At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them.

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And when the sun went down, all, as many as had persons sick with divers diseases, brought them to him, and having laid his hands on every one of them, he healed them;

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Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.

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and demons also went out from many, crying out and saying, *Thou* art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

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At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them.

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Jesus Preaches in Judea

And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place, and the crowds sought after him, and came up to him, and [would have] kept him back that he should not go from them.

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But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.”

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But he said to them, I must needs announce the glad tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for for this I have been sent forth.

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And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

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And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

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