1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness #holyspirit#atimefor
2for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry. #bestlifenow#food#evil
3The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread." #sonofgod
4Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'" #scripture#ot
5The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. #history#kingjesus
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. #kingjesus#authority
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 him only shall you serve.'" #god#worship#ot#scripture
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, #temple#sonofgod
10for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you, to guard you;' #scripture
11and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, Lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.'" #scripture
12Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'" #scripture#providence#faith
13When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time. #atimefor#sin
14Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. #holyspirit
15He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. #teaching#gloryofgod
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. #preaching
17The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written, #scripture
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 brokenhearted, To proclaim release to the captives, Recovering of sight to the blind, To deliver those who are crushed, #ot#prophecy
19And to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." #ot#prophecy#goodnews
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." #howitreallyis#gospel
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?" #sonofman#sonofgod#christmas
23He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.'"
24He said, "Most assuredly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. #prophet
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. #ot#history#weather
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. #ot#prophet
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 midst of them, went his way. #youwhat
31He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day, #teaching
32and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority. #authority#widsom#teaching
33In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, #demon
34saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!" #question#howitreallyis#sonofgod#kingjesus
35Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. #miracle#healing
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!" #wordshavepower#miracle
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 for her.
39He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them. #healing#miracle
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. #healing#miracle
41Demons also came out from 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. #demon#miracle#sonofgod#howitreallyis
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 the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent." #goodnews#kingdom#purpose
44He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.