¹Then Jesus, who was full of holy spirit, returned from the Jordan, and he was led by the spirit into the desert, ²and he was tempted by the devil for forty days, and he did not eat anything in those days. Then when they were completed – after all this – he was hungry. ³The devil said to him, “If you are the son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” ⁴At this Jesus answered him and said, “It stands written: ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ” ⁵Then the devil led him up to a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, ⁶and the devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, because it has been given to me, and I give it to whomever I wish, ⁷so if you worship me, all that will be yours.” ⁸Then Jesus answered him and said, “Off with you behind me, Satan. It stands written: ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ” ⁹Next he led him to Jerusalem, and he stood him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the son of God, throw yourself down from here, ¹⁰for it stands written: ¹¹and, ¹²At this Jesus responded and said to him, “It has been spoken: ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ” ¹³Then having finished each temptation, the devil withdrew from him for a while, ¹⁴and Jesus returned in the power of the spirit to Galilee. Then a report about him spread throughout the entire surrounding region, ¹⁵and he himself taught in their synagogues, and he was glorified by all. ¹⁶Then he went to Nazareth where he had been brought up, and in accordance with his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. ¹⁷Now the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed over to him, and he unrolled the book, and he found the place where it was written: ²⁰Then he rolled the book up and returned it to the attendant, and he sat down. Now the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were looking at him intently, ²¹but he went on to say to them, “Today, this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears.” ²²So they all bore witness to him, and they were astounded at the words of grace coming from his mouth, and they said, “Isn't this the son of Joseph?” ²³At this he said to them, “You will no doubt tell me this adage: ‘Doctor, cure yourself. All the things we have heard which took place in Capernaum, do also here in your native country.’ ” ²⁴And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his native country, ²⁵and I say to you truthfully, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven had been closed for three years and six months, when there was a severe famine in all the land, ²⁶and Elijah was not sent to any of them except to Sarepta in Sidon, to a widowed woman. ²⁷Also, there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” ²⁸Then they were all filled with anger in the synagogue on hearing these things, ²⁹and they rose up and threw him out of the town, and they led him to the brow of the mountain on which their town had been built, intending to throw him off a precipice, ³⁰but he slipped through the thick of them and went his way. ³¹Then he came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and he would teach them on the Sabbath days, ³²and they were astonished at his teaching, because his word was with authority. ³³Now there was a man in the synagogue possessed by a spirit of an unclean demon, and he shouted out in a loud voice, ³⁴and he said, “Hey, what have you got to do with us, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the holy one of God.” ³⁵Then Jesus rebuked it and said, “Be silent and come out of him.” At this the demon threw him right in among them, and it came out of him, not having harmed him in any way. ³⁶And astonishment came upon them all, and they spoke to each other and said, “What kind of speech is this, where he commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out?” ³⁷Consequently, rumours about him spread to every place in the surrounding area. ³⁸Then he left the synagogue and went to Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was in the grip of a severe fever, and they appealed to him concerning her. ³⁹So he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she got up and waited on them. ⁴⁰Then when the sun was setting, all those who had folk sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on each one of them and cured them. ⁴¹Demons also came out of many of them, shouting and saying, “You are the Christ the son of God”, but he rebuked them and did not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ. ⁴²Then when it was day, he departed and went to a desolate place, but the crowds looked for him and came up to him and tried to stop him moving on from them. ⁴³So he said to them, “I must also announce good tidings of the kingdom of God to the other towns, because this is what I have been sent for.” ⁴⁴Then he would proclaim it in the synagogues of Galilee.

Reference(s) in Chapter 4: v.4 ↔ Deuteronomy 8:3 ● v.8 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:13, Deuteronomy 10:20 ● v.10 ↔ Psalm 91:11 ● v.11 ↔ Psalm 91:12 ● v.12 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:16 ● v.18 ↔ Isaiah 61:1, Isaiah 58:6, Isaiah 35:5 ● v.19 ↔ Isaiah 61:2 ● v.26 ↔ 1 Kings 17:9.