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St. Luke 4
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from
the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert,
For the space of forty days; and was tempted by the
devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they
were ended, he was hungry.
And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God,
say to this stone that it be made bread.
And Jesus answered him: It is written, that Man liveth
not by bread alone, but by every word of God.
And the devil led him into a high mountain, and shewed
him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time;
And he said to him: To thee will I give all this power,
and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered,
and to whom I will, I give them.
If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be
thine.
And Jesus answering said to him: It is written: Thou
shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
serve.
And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle
of the temple, and he said to him: If thou be the Son
of God, cast thyself from hence.
For it is written, that He hath given his angels charge
over thee, that they keep thee.
And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest
perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.
And Jesus answering, said to him: It is said: Thou shalt
not tempt the Lord thy God.
And all the temptation being ended, the devil departed
from him for a time.
And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit, into
Galilee, and the fame of him went out through the whole
country.
And he taught in their synagogues, and was magnified
by all.
And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and
he went into the synagogue, according to his custom,
on the sabbath day; and he rose up to read.
And the book of Isaias the prophet was delivered unto
him. And as he unfolded the book, he found the place
where it was written:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath
sent me to heal the contrite of heart,
To preach deliverance to the captives, and sight to
the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day
of reward.
And when he had folded the book, he restored it to the
minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue
were fixed on him.
And he began to say to them: This day is fulfilled this
scripture in your ears.
And all gave testimony to him: and they wondered at
the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth, and
they said: Is not this the son of Joseph?
And he said to them: Doubtless you will say to me this
similitude: Physician, heal thyself: as great things
as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in
thy own country.
And he said: Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted
in his own country.
In truth I say to you, there were many widows in the
days of Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three
years and six months, when there was a great famine
throughout all the earth.
And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of
Sidon, to a widow woman.
And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of
Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed but
Naaman the Syrian.
And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things,
were filled with anger.
And they rose up and thrust him out of the city; and
they brought him to the brow of the hill, whereon their
city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
But he passing through the midst of them, went his way.
And he went down into Capharnaum, a city of Galilee,
and there he taught them on the sabbath days.
And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his speech
was with power.
And in the synagogue there was a man who had an unclean
devil, and he cried out with a loud voice,
Saying: Let us alone, what have we to do with thee,
Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know
thee who thou art, the holy one of God.
And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Hold thy peace, and go
out of him. And when the devil had thrown him into the
midst, he went out of him, and hurt him not at all.
And there came fear upon all, and they talked among
themselves, saying: What word is this, for with authority
and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they
go out?
And the fame of him was published into every place of
the country.
And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into
Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with
a great fever, and they besought him for her.
And standing over her, he commanded the fever, and it
left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to
them.
And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick
with divers diseases, brought them to him. But he laying
his hands on every one of them, healed them.
And devils went out from many, crying out and saying:
Thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them he suffered
them not to speak, for they knew that he was Christ.
And when it was day, going out he went into a desert
place, and the multitudes sought him, and came unto
him: and they stayed him that he should not depart from
them.
To whom he said: To other cities also I must preach
the kingdom of God: for therefore am I sent.
And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
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