Luke 4

The Temptation of Jesus

¹ Now Jesus full of [the] Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan, and was led by the spirit in the wilderness, ² being tested forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days, and having completed them he was hungry. ³ So the devil says to him: If you are [the] son of God, tell this stone to become bread. ⁴ And Jesus answered him: It is written that¹:

Not upon bread alone will man zoe-live^{2 3}

⁵ And leading him up he showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited-world in [an] instant of time. ⁶ And the devil said to him: To you will I give all this authority and their glory, because to me have they been given over and [I in turn] to whom I wish to give it. ⁷ You therefore, if you worship before me, all will be yours. ⁸ And Jesus answering said to him: It is written⁴:

You will worship [the] Lord your God
And him only⁵ will you serve⁶.

⁹ But he brought him to Jerusalem and stood him upon the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him: If you are [the] son of God, throw yourself down from there, ¹⁰ For it is written that⁷:

He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you.

¹¹ And that⁸:

Upon [their] hands they will bear you
Lest you strike your foot against [a] stone.

¹² And Jesus answering said to him that: It is said⁹:

You will not test [the] Lord your God.

¹³ And having completed every test, the devil withdrew from him until [an] opportune-time¹⁰ .

The Beginning of Jesus's Ministry in Galilee

¹⁴ And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit to Galilee, and news went out to all the surrounding region concerning him. ¹⁵ And he himself was teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

Rejection at Nazareth

¹⁶ And he came into Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and entered according to his custom in the day of the Sabbaths into the synagogue, and stood to read. ¹⁷ And [the] scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and having opened the scroll he found the place where it was written¹¹:

¹⁸ [The] spirit of the Lord [is] upon me
Because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor, ¹²
To proclaim pardon to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
To send away the oppressed in pardon,
¹⁹ To proclaim [the] welcome¹³ year of the Lord.

²⁰ And having rolled up the scroll, [and] having returned it to the assistant, he sat, and all eyes in the synagogue were looking intently on him. ²¹ So he began to be speaking to them that: Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears. ²² And all were testifying [well] of him and were marveling upon the words of grace proceeding out of his mouth, and were saying: Is this not Joseph's son? ²³ And he said to them: Certainly you will tell me this parable: Physician, heal yourself; as much as we heard came to pass in Capernaum, do also here in your native-land. ²⁴ But he said: Truly I say to you that no prophet is welcome¹⁴ in his native-land. ²⁵ But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut three years and six months, that there came to pass [a] great famine upon all the land, ²⁶ and to none of them was Elijah sent except to to [the region of] Sarepta in Sidon, to [a] widow woman. ²⁷ And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha, and none of them were cleansed except Naiman the Syrian. ²⁸ And all were filled with rage in the synagogue, hearing these [things], ²⁹ and having risen up they threw him out of the city and led him to [the] brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, in order to throw him down the cliff. ³⁰ But he himself, having passed through their midst, was departing.

Ministry in Capernaum

³¹ And he came down into Capernaum, [a] city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbaths, ³² and they were astonished by his teaching, for his word was in authority.

³³ And in the synagogue was [a] man having [a] spirit of [an] unclean demon, and he cried out with [a] loud voice, ³⁴ Yikes! What [is] to you and to us¹⁵, Jesus [the] Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the holy one of God! ³⁵ And Jesus rebuked him saying: Be silenced and come out from him. And having thrown him down in their midst, the demon came out of him, not having harmed him. ³⁶ And wonder came to pass upon all, and they spoke to one another saying: What is this word¹⁶, that with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits and they come out? ³⁷ And the news concerning him went out into all the surrounding region.

³⁸ So having risen up from the synagogue he entered into the house of Simon. Now Simon's mother-in-law was gripped by [a] great fever, and they asked¹⁷ him concerning her. ³⁹ And having stood over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately having arisen she was serving them.

⁴⁰ But while the sun [is] setting, all as many were having sickliness by various diseases they brought them to him, but laying his hands on each of them he was healing them. ⁴¹ And demons also were come out of many, crying out and saying that: You are the son of God! And rebuking [them] he did not permit [them] to speak this, because they knew [him] to be the Christ.

⁴² Now when it became day, having gone out he went to [a] wilderness¹⁸ place, and the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him, and were hindering him from leaving them. ⁴³ But he said to them that: Also to the other cities must I preach the kingdom of God, for on this was I sent. ⁴⁴ And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea¹⁹.

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¹Deut.8:3

²from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example: Matt.9:18, Matt.27:63, Luke.2:36, Acts.25:24, Rom.7:2, 2Cor.1:8, 1Thes.4:17, 1Tim.5:10, Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of Luke.15:13, Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see 1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.

³add: `But upon every word of God': AK; txt: ℵBW

⁴Deut.6:13

⁵`only' is found in the Greek, but not Deut.6:13-neither the Hebrew nor the LXX

⁶LATREUO (λατρευω) serve as applies only to the carrying out of religious duties (See Danker (2000)), as opposed to the more general DIAKONEO (διακoνεω `to serve'

⁷Ps.91:11

⁸Ps.91:12

⁹Deut.6:16

¹⁰KAIROS (καιρoς ) `opportune time', `proper time', `season'

¹¹Is.61:1 ff.

¹²insert `He has sent me to heal the crushed in heart': AK, found in the LXX so likely inserted to make this passage match; omit: ℵBDW

¹³or `acceptable'

¹⁴or `acceptable'

¹⁵i.e. "What do we have do to with each other?"

¹⁶that is, `What does this mean?'

¹⁷EROTAO (ερωταω) "Ask", but more polite, not demanding/begging as is AITEO. Both AITEO and EROTAO occur in John.16:26.

¹⁸or `deserted'

¹⁹"Judea" p⁷⁵ ℵBW; "Galilee" D K vg