1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
2 for forty days, while the devil tempted him. During those days he ate nothing, and when they were over, he was hungry.
3 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to turn into bread."
4 Jesus answered him, "It is written: 'Not on bread alone shall man live, but on every word of God.'"
5 Then the devil led him up onto a high mountain and showed him, in an instant of time, all the kingdoms of the inhabited world.
6 The devil said to him, "All this authority and the splendor of these kingdoms I will give to you, because it has been handed over to me, and I give it to anyone I choose.
7 So if you will bow down in worship before me, the whole of it will be yours."
8 Jesus answered him, "Get behind me, Satan! It is written: 'The Lord your God you shall worship, and him alone you shall serve.'"
9 Then he took him to Jerusalem, stood him on the highest point of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here;
10 for it is written: 'He will give his angels orders concerning you, to protect you,'
11 and: 'They will lift you up in their hands, so that you do not strike your foot on a stone.'"
12 Jesus answered him, "It has been said: 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'"
13 When the devil had finished every kind of temptation, he went away from him until a fitting time.
14 Jesus went back to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread through all the surrounding countryside.
15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.
16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been raised, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom, and stood up to read.
17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written:
18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, for he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to heal those whose hearts are broken, to announce release to the captives and sight again to the blind, to send away free those who are crushed,
19 to announce the favorable year of the Lord."
20 He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 He began by saying to them, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your ears."
22 Everyone was speaking well of him and wondering at the words of grace that came out of his mouth, and they said, "Is this not the son of Joseph?"
23 He said to them, "No doubt you will quote me this proverb, 'Doctor, cure yourself! All we heard was done in Capernaum, do here in your own hometown as well.'"
24 Then he said, "Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his own hometown.
25 In truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was closed for three years and six months and a severe famine struck the whole land;
26 yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath in the region of Sidon, to a widow woman.
27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, only Naaman the Syrian."
28 On hearing this, everyone in the synagogue was filled with rage.
29 They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the edge of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down the cliff.
30 But he passed right through the middle of them and went on his way.
31 He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and he was teaching them on the Sabbath days.
32 They were amazed at his teaching, because his word carried authority.
33 In the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he shouted out with a loud voice,
34 "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: "Be quiet, and come out of him!" The demon threw the man down in their midst and came out of him without hurting him at all.
36 Amazement came over them all, and they were saying to each other, "What kind of word is this? With authority and power he gives orders to the unclean spirits, and out they come!"
37 And talk about him was spreading into every place in the region round about.
38 Leaving the synagogue, he went into Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was gripped by a high fever, and they asked him about her.
39 He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it let her go. She got up at once and began to serve them.
40 As the sun was going down, all who had people sick with all kinds of illnesses brought them to him, and laying his hands on each one of them, he healed them.
41 Demons too came out of many, shouting, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not let them speak, because they knew he was the Christ.
42 At daybreak he went out and made his way to a deserted place. The crowds went looking for him, and when they reached him, they tried to hold him back from going away from them.
43 But he told them, "To the other towns as well I must bring the good news of the kingdom of God, because that is what I was sent for."
44 And he kept preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.