4:1And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, went back from the Jordan: and he was being led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, and he was being tested by the devil. 4:2And he ate nothing in those days: and when they had been completed, he was hungry. 4:3And the devil said to him: "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone that it should become bread." 4:4And Jesus answered him: "It is written: 'Not on bread alone does man live, but on every word of God.'" 4:5And the devil led him onto a high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him: "To you I will give all this power, and their glory: because they have been handed over to me, and to whom I wish I give them.
4:7So you, if you worship before me, all things will be yours." 4:8And answering, Jesus said to him: "It is written: 'The Lord your God you will worship, and him alone you will serve.'" 4:9And he led him into Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him: "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here. 4:10For it is written that he has given orders to his angels about you, that they guard you: and that in their hands they will lift you up, so that you may not perhaps strike your foot against a stone." 4:12And answering, Jesus said to him: "It has been said: 'You shall not test the Lord your God.'"
4:13And all the testing having been completed, the devil withdrew from him, until a time. 4:14And Jesus went back in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and a report went out through the whole region about him. 4:15And he himself was teaching in their synagogues, and was being magnified by all. 4:16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the day of the sabbath into the synagogue, and he stood up to read. 4:17And the book of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. 4:17And when he unrolled the book, he found the place where it had been written: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: on account of which he has anointed me, to bring good news to the poor he has sent me, to heal the crushed in heart, to proclaim to captives release, and to the blind sight, to send away the broken into release, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of repayment."
4:20And when he had folded the book, he gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. 4:20And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 4:21And he began to say to them: "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears." 4:22And all were giving testimony to him: and they were wondering at the words of grace which were proceeding from his mouth, and they were saying: "Is this not the son of Joseph?" 4:23And he said to them: "Surely you will say to me this proverb: 'Doctor, cure yourself: whatever great things we have heard were done in Capernaum, do here too in your homeland.'"
4:24And he said: "Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own homeland. 4:25In truth I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when heaven was shut for three years and six months, when a great famine had come about in all the land: and to none of them was Elijah sent, except to Zarephath of Sidon, to a woman, a widow. 4:27And there were many lepers in Israel under Elisha the prophet: and none of them was made clean except Naaman the Syrian." 4:28And all in the synagogue were filled with anger, hearing these things. 4:29And they rose up, and threw him out of the city: and they led him as far as the brow of the mountain on which their city had been built, so that they might throw him down headlong.
4:30But he, passing through the middle of them, went on his way. 4:31And he went down into Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and there he was teaching them on the sabbaths. 4:32And they were astounded at his teaching, because his speech was with power. 4:33And in the synagogue there was a man having an unclean demon, and he cried out with a great voice, saying: "Let us be, what to us and to you, Jesus of Nazareth? 4:34Have you come to destroy us? 4:34I know you, who you are, the Holy One of God." 4:35And Jesus rebuked him, saying: "Be silent, and go out from him." 4:35And when the demon had thrown him down into the middle, it went out from him, and did him no harm at all.
4:36And dread came upon all, and they were talking together to one another, saying: "What is this word, that with power and strength he gives orders to the unclean spirits, and they go out?" 4:37And the report about him was being spread into every place of the region. 4:38And Jesus, rising from the synagogue, went into the house of Simon. 4:38And the mother-in-law of Simon was being held by great fevers: and they asked him on her behalf. 4:39And standing over her he gave orders to the fever: and it let her go. 4:39And at once rising, she was serving them. 4:40And when the sun had set, all who had people sick with various illnesses were bringing them to him.
4:40But he, laying his hands on each one, was curing them. 4:41And demons were going out from many, shouting, and saying: "You are the Son of God": and rebuking them he was not allowing them to speak: because they knew him to be the Christ. 4:42And when day had come, having gone out he went into a deserted place, and the crowds were seeking him, and they came right up to him: and they were holding him back so that he should not depart from them. 4:43And he said to them: "To other cities too I must bring the good news of the kingdom of God: because for this I have been sent."
4:44And he was proclaiming in the synagogues of Galilee.