Book of Common Prayer

¹⁹ And by this, we will know that we are of ^[a] the truth, and we will persuade^[b] our heart before Him. ²⁰ Because^[c] if our heart is condemning^[d] us, we know that God is greater^[e] than our hearts, and He knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart is not condemning us, we have confidence^[f] before God. ²² And whatever we are asking, we are receiving from Him, because we are keeping His commandments and doing the pleasing things in His sight. ²³ And this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and that we be loving one another, just as He gave us the commandment. ²⁴ And the one keeping His commandments is abiding in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He is abiding in us: from the Spirit Whom He gave to us.

Test The Spirits. The Spirit From God Confesses Christ

4 Beloved, do not be believing every spirit, but be testing the spirits^[g] to see if they are from God, because many false-prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this you know^[h] the Spirit^[i] of God: every spirit that is confessing Jesus Christ as having come in the flesh is from God. ³ And every spirit that is not confessing Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist— which, you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. ⁴ You are from^[j] God, little children, and you have overcome them, because greater is the One in you than the one in the world. ⁵ They are from^[k] the world. For this reason they are speaking from the world, and the world is listening-to them. ⁶ We are from God. The one knowing God is listening-to us. He who is not from God is not listening-to us. From this, we know the Spirit^[l] of truth and the spirit of error^[m].

Jesus Returns To Galilee And Begins Teaching In Their Synagogues

¹⁴ And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit. And news about Him went out throughout the whole surrounding-region. ¹⁵ And He was teaching in their synagogues, while being glorified by all.

Jesus Comes To Nazareth And Reads Isaiah 61:1-2 In The Synagogue

¹⁶ And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought-up. And in accordance with the thing having become-a-custom with him, He entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath, and stood up to read. ¹⁷ And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to Him. And having unrolled the scroll, He found the place where it had been written [in Isa 61:1-2]: ¹⁸ “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because of which He anointed Me to announce-good-news to poor ones. He has sent me out to proclaim a release to captives and recovery-of-sight to blind ones, to send-out with a release ones having been broken^[a], ¹⁹ to proclaim the acceptable^[b] year of the Lord”. ²⁰ And having rolled up the scroll, having given it back to the attendant, He sat-down^[c]. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were looking-intently at Him.

Jesus Says: Today This Scripture Is Fulfilled In Your Ears. They Drive Him Out

²¹ And He began to say to them that “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ears”. ²² And they all were^[d] testifying concerning Him, and marveling at the words of ^[e] grace proceeding from His mouth. And they were saying, “Is not this One Joseph’s son?” ²³ And He said to them, “You will surely speak this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, cure yourself’. Do also here in your hometown all-that we heard having taken place in Capernaum”. ²⁴ But He said, “Truly I say to you that no prophet is acceptable^[f] in his hometown. ²⁵ And I say to you in accordance with [God’s] truth— there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when a great famine took place over all the land. ²⁶ And Elijah was sent to none^[g] of them, except to [the village of] Zarephath of-Sidon, to a widow woman. ²⁷ And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. And none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian”. ²⁸ And they were all filled with fury in the synagogue while hearing these things. ²⁹ And having arisen, they drove Him outside of the city, and led Him up to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built so as to throw Him down the cliff. ³⁰ But He, having gone through the middle of them, was proceeding.