 1 Now+ Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit, returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. 2 For forty days, He was tempted by the devil. In those days, He ate nothing and after they were ended, He was hungry. 3 Then the devil said to Him: If you are the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. 4 Jesus answered him saying: It is written that mankind+ shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word of God. Matthew 4:4 5 Then the devil took+ Jesus up to a high mountain and showed to Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him: I will give you authority+ and power over all these, and the glory of them, for that is delivered to me and to whomever I will, I can give it. 7 Therefore, if you will worship me, all this shall be yours. 8 Jesus answered and said to him: Get behind me Satan. For it is written: You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve. Matthew 4:10 9 Then Satan took Jesus to Jerusalem, sat Him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him: If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here. 10 For it is written: He will give His angels charge over you to keep you. Matthew 4:6 11 In their hands they will bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. Matthew 4:6 12 Jesus answering said to him: It is said: You shall not tempt the Lord your God. Matthew 4:7 13 When the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from Jesus for a season. 14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and His reputation+ went all around+ the region. 15 He taught in their synagogues, being honored+ by everyone+. 16 Then 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 to read. 17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was delivered to Him, 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 has anointed me to proclaim+ the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim+ deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are bruised, Isaiah 61:1 19 to proclaim+ the acceptable year of the Lord ... Isaiah 61:2 20 Then He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant+, and sat down. And the eyes of all those who were in the synagogue were fastened on Him. 21 He began to say to them: This day this Scripture is fulfilled in your ears. 22 All bore witness to Him and wondered at the gracious words that came out of His mouth. And they said: Is this not Joseph's son? 23 He said to them: You will surely say to me this proverb: Physician, heal yourself. Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in your country. 24 He said: Truly+ I say to you: No prophet is accepted in his own country. 25 But truly I say to you: Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land. 26 But Elijah was not sent to any of them except+ to Sarepta, a city of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 Many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet and none of them was cleansed except+ Naaman the Syrian. 28 When they heard these things, all those in the synagogue were filled with wrath 29 and rose up and thrust Him out of the city and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built so that they might cast Him down headlong. 30 But passing through the midst of them, Jesus went away+ 31 and came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the Sabbath days. 32 They were astonished at His doctrine, for His Word was with authority+ and power. 33 Now+ there was a man in the synagogue who had a spirit of an unclean demon+ and cried out with a loud voice 34 saying: Let us alone. What do we have to do with you Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: The Holy One of God. 35 Jesus rebuked him saying: Be still+ and come out of him. And when the demon+ had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him and did not hurt him. 36 They were all amazed and spoke among themselves saying: What a Word this is. For He commands the unclean spirits with authority and power and they come out. 37 So His reputation+ went into every place in the country all around+. 38 Then He arose out of the synagogue and entered Simon's house where Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever, and they prayed to Him for her. 39 He stood over her and rebuked the fever and it left her and immediately she arose and ministered to them. 40 Now when the Sun was setting, all those who had any sick ones with many different+ diseases brought them to Him and He laid His hands on everyone of them and healed them. 41 Demons+ also came out of many, crying out and saying: You are Christ the Son of God. But+ He rebuked them and did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was Christ. 42 When it was day, He departed and went into a deserted+ place. But+ the people sought Him out and came to Him and detained+ him so that He could+ not depart from them. 43 He said to them: I must proclaim+ the kingdom of God to other cities also, because it is for that purpose I have been sent. 44 And He proclaimed+ the Word in the synagogues of Galilee.
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