The Temptation of Jesus

(A)Now Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, (B)returned from the Jordan and was led around [a]by the Spirit in the wilderness for (C)forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry. And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written: ‘(D)Man shall not live on bread alone.’”

(E)And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of [b](F)the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to Him, “I will give You all this domain and [c]its glory, (G)for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I want. Therefore if You [d]worship before me, it shall all be Yours.” Jesus replied to him, “It is written: ‘(H)You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

(I)And he brought Him into Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here; 10 for it is written:

(J)He will give His angels orders concerning You, to protect You,’

11 and,

(K)On their hands they will lift You up,
So that You do not strike Your foot against a stone.’”

12 And Jesus answered and said to him, “It has been stated, ‘(L)You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

13 And so when the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

Jesus’ Public Ministry

14 And (M)Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and (N)news about Him spread through all the surrounding region. 15 And He began (O)teaching in their synagogues and was praised by all.

16 And He came to (P)Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, (Q)He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and (R)stood up to read. 17 And the scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to Him. And He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:

18 (S)The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He anointed Me to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent Me to proclaim release to captives,
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set free those who are oppressed,
19 (T)To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.”

20 And He (U)rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and (V)sat down; and the eyes of all the people in the synagogue were intently directed at Him. 21 Now He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your [e]hearing.” 22 And all the people were [f]speaking well of Him, and admiring the [g]gracious words which were coming from His [h]lips; and yet they were saying, “(W)Is this not Joseph’s son?” 23 And He said to them, “No doubt you will [i]quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! All the miracles that we heard were done (X)in Capernaum, do here in (Y)Your hometown as well.’” 24 But He said, “Truly I say to you, (Z)no prophet is welcome in his hometown. 25 But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel (AA)in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a [j]severe famine came over all the land; 26 and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to [k](AB)Zarephath, in the land of (AC)Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And there were many with leprosy in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was [l]cleansed, but only (AD)Naaman the Syrian.” 28 And all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things; 29 and they got up and (AE)drove Him out of the city, and brought Him to the [m]crest of the hill on which their city had been built, so that they could throw Him down from the cliff. 30 But He (AF)passed through their midst and went on His way.

31 And (AG)He came down to (AH)Capernaum, a city of Galilee; and He was teaching them on the Sabbath; 32 and (AI)they were amazed at His teaching, because (AJ)His [n]message was delivered with authority. 33 In the synagogue there was a man [o]possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, 34 “Leave us alone! [p](AK)What business do You have with us, Jesus [q]of (AL)Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—(AM)the Holy One of God!” 35 But Jesus (AN)rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, it came out of him without doing him any harm. 36 And amazement came upon them all, and they began talking with one another, saying, “What is [r]this message? For (AO)with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!” 37 And (AP)the news about Him was spreading into every locality of the surrounding region.

Many Are Healed

38 (AQ)Then He got up and left the synagogue, and entered Simon’s home. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was (AR)suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him [s]to help her. 39 And standing over her, He (AS)rebuked the fever, and it left her; and she immediately got up and served them.

40 (AT)Now while (AU)the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and He was (AV)laying His hands on each one of them and (AW)healing them. 41 Demons also were coming out of many, shouting, “You are (AX)the Son of God!” And yet He was (AY)rebuking them and would (AZ)not allow them to speak, because they knew that He was the [t]Christ.

42 (BA)Now when day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place; and the crowds were searching for Him, and they came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving them. 43 But He said to them, “I must also preach the kingdom of God to the other cities, (BB)because I was sent for this purpose.”

44 So He kept on preaching in the synagogues (BC)of [u]Judea.

Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:1 Or under the influence of; lit in
  2. Luke 4:5 Lit the inhabited earth
  3. Luke 4:6 Lit their (referring to the kingdoms in v 5)
  4. Luke 4:7 Or bow down before
  5. Luke 4:21 Lit ears
  6. Luke 4:22 Or testifying
  7. Luke 4:22 Lit words of grace
  8. Luke 4:22 Lit mouth
  9. Luke 4:23 Lit tell me this
  10. Luke 4:25 Lit great
  11. Luke 4:26 Gr Sarepta
  12. Luke 4:27 I.e., healed
  13. Luke 4:29 Lit brow
  14. Luke 4:32 Lit word
  15. Luke 4:33 Lit having a spirit
  16. Luke 4:34 Lit What to us and to you (an ancient idiom)
  17. Luke 4:34 Lit the Nazarene
  18. Luke 4:36 Or this word, that with authority...come out?
  19. Luke 4:38 Lit about her
  20. Luke 4:41 I.e., Messiah
  21. Luke 4:44 I.e., the country of the Jews (including Galilee)

耶稣经受魔鬼的诱惑

耶稣满怀圣灵的力量,从约旦河返回。他在圣灵的引导下,来到了旷野。 他在那里度过了四十天,经受魔鬼撒旦的诱惑。这些天里,他没吃任何食物,等到四十天结束时,他感到非常饥饿。

这时,魔鬼对他说∶“如果你是上帝之子,就命令这块石头变成面包吧!”

耶稣答道∶“《经》上说:

‘人不能只靠面包活着。’” (A)

然后,魔鬼又把耶稣带到高处,把世间万国在眨眼之间都显示在他眼前。 魔鬼说∶“我将把它们的一切王权和荣耀都给你,因为它们都已交给了我,我想把它们送给谁就送给谁, 所以,如果你崇拜我,这都归你了。”

耶稣回答道:《经》上写道:

“‘你必须崇拜主—你的上帝, 并且只侍奉他!’” 。” (B)

然后,魔鬼又把耶稣带到了耶路撒冷,让他站在大殿院上一个很高的地方,对他说∶“如果你是上帝之子,就跳下去吧! 10 因为《经》上说:

‘上帝将吩咐天使照看你。’ (C)

11 《经》上还写着,

‘他们会用手接住你,使你的脚不会跌到石头上。’” (D)

12 耶稣回答道∶“可是,《经》上还说:

‘不可试探主—你的上帝。’” (E)

13 魔鬼把所有的诱惑手段用完后,便离开了耶稣,等待更好的时机。

耶稣在加利利开始传教

14 耶稣返回加利利,他充满了圣灵的力量。此时,有关他的消息已经传遍了四方。 15 耶稣开始在会堂 [a]里教导人们,并受到了所有人的称赞。

耶稣返回家乡

16 此后,他到了拿撒勒城,他是在那里长大的。在安息日那天,他按照常规去了会堂,站在那里向人们读《经》。 17 有人把先知以赛亚的书递给他,他打开书,翻到一页,上面写道:

18 “主的灵指引着我,
因为上帝挑选了我,为贫穷的人们传播福音,
他派我来宣告:
所有的奴隶都将获得解放,
所有的盲人都将重见光明,
受压迫的人将获得自由,
19 并宣布主向众人施善的恩年!” (F)

20 耶稣合上书,还给执事,然后坐下。这时,会堂里所有的人都注视着他。 21 耶稣说道∶“刚才你们听见的这段经文,今天得以实现了!”

22 在场的人都称赞耶稣,大家对他优雅的措辞,感到十分惊奇。人们说着∶“这怎么可能呢?难道他不就是约瑟的儿子吗?”

23 耶稣又说∶“当然你们会对我引用这句俗话:医生啊,治好你自己吧。你们还会说:我们已经听说了你在迦百农的所作所为,那么,就在你的家乡再做一遍吧!” 24 耶稣又说道∶“我实话告诉你们吧:没有一位先知在自己家乡被接受。 25 我给你们讲一个真实的事情:在以利亚先知时代,以色列有很多寡妇,那时,连续三年半无雨,遍地大饥荒。 26 上帝派以利亚只去探望一位在西顿的撒勒法的寡妇,除她之外,没有派以利亚去探望其他任何寡妇。 27 当时,以色列有很多患麻风病的人,但是,除了叙利亚人乃缦被治愈外,其他人都没得到治愈。”

28 听到这里,会堂里所有的人们都气愤极了, 29 他们起来把耶稣拉出城去,此城座落在一座山坡上,人们把耶稣带到山崖上,要把他推下去, 30 但是耶稣却从人群中从容地走开了。

耶稣解救被邪灵附体的人

31 此后,耶稣到了加利利的迦百农城。安息日那天,他教导人们。 32 人们对他的教导都非常惊讶,因为他带着权威讲话。

33 当时,会堂里有一个被邪灵附身的人,他叫喊着: 34 “拿撒勒城的耶稣,你要把我们怎么样?你是要来毁灭我们的吗?我知道你是谁,你是上帝的圣人!” 35 耶稣斥责他道∶“住口!离开这个人!”邪灵把他摔在众人面前,从他身上逃走了,丝毫也没有伤害他。

36 众人都非常惊讶,他们彼此议论起来∶“这是怎么回事呢?他居然有权威和力量命令邪灵,而邪灵竟也听命于他,出来了。” 37 关于耶稣的消息传遍了整个地区。

耶稣治愈西门的岳母

38 耶稣离开会堂,来到西门 [b]家里。西门的岳母正在发高烧。他们请求耶稣为她治病。 39 耶稣站在她身边,斥责她身上的热病,烧便退了,西门的岳母便起来开始招待他们。

耶稣治好了许多人

40 当太阳落山时,人们把患有各种疾病的人都带到耶稣那里。耶稣把手依次放在他们身上,治好了他们的病。 41 鬼从很多人的身上跑了出去,这些鬼连喊带叫地说∶“你就是‘上帝之子’!”但是,耶稣斥责了他们,不许他们讲话,因为鬼知道他就是基督。

耶稣去其它城镇

42 天亮的时候,耶稣出去,独自来到了一个偏僻的地方,但是人们仍旧寻找到了他,他们来到了耶稣那里,设法挽留他,不要他离开。 43 但是,耶稣说∶“我必须到其它城镇去传播上帝王国的福音,因为这是我被派遣到这里的原因!”

44 于是,耶稣在犹太各会堂继续传播福音。

Footnotes

  1. 路 加 福 音 4:15 会堂: 犹太人在此聚集在一起,祈祷、学经和召集其它的公共会议。
  2. 路 加 福 音 4:38 西门: 又名彼得。

Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness(A)

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit,(B) left the Jordan(C) and was led by the Spirit(D) into the wilderness, where for forty days(E) he was tempted[a] by the devil.(F) He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

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

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’[b](H)

The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.(I) And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me,(J) and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’[c](K)

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. 10 For it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you
    to guard you carefully;
11 they will lift you up in their hands,
    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’[d](L)

12 Jesus answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’[e](M)

13 When the devil had finished all this tempting,(N) he left him(O) until an opportune time.

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

14 Jesus returned to Galilee(P) in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.(Q) 15 He was teaching in their synagogues,(R) and everyone praised him.

16 He went to Nazareth,(S) where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue,(T) as was his custom. He stood up to read,(U) 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,(V)
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news(W) 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,
19     to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”[f](X)

20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.(Y) The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled(Z) in your hearing.”

22 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.(AA)

23 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(AB) what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”(AC)

24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.(AD) 25 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.(AE) 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.(AF) 27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy[g] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”(AG)

28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town,(AH) and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. 30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.(AI)

Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit(AJ)

31 Then he went down to Capernaum,(AK) a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. 32 They were amazed at his teaching,(AL) because his words had authority.(AM)

33 In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice, 34 “Go away! What do you want with us,(AN) Jesus of Nazareth?(AO) Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are(AP)—the Holy One of God!”(AQ)

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

36 All the people were amazed(AS) and said to each other, “What words these are! With authority(AT) and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!” 37 And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.(AU)

Jesus Heals Many(AV)(AW)

38 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. 39 So he bent over her and rebuked(AX) the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

40 At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one,(AY) he healed them.(AZ) 41 Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!”(BA) But he rebuked(BB) them and would not allow them to speak,(BC) because they knew he was the Messiah.

42 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. 43 But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God(BD) to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.” 44 And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.(BE)

Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:2 The Greek for tempted can also mean tested.
  2. Luke 4:4 Deut. 8:3
  3. Luke 4:8 Deut. 6:13
  4. Luke 4:11 Psalm 91:11,12
  5. Luke 4:12 Deut. 6:16
  6. Luke 4:19 Isaiah 61:1,2 (see Septuagint); Isaiah 58:6
  7. Luke 4:27 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.