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Luke - ch 4 v 1 - 20
- But Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness
- forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.
- And the devil said to him, If thou be Son of God, speak to this stone, that it become bread.
- And Jesus answered unto him saying, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
- And the devil, leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.
- And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power, and their glory; for it is given up to me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.
- If therefore thou wilt do homage before me, all of it shall be thine.
- And Jesus answering him said, It is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.
- And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the edge of the temple, and said to him, If thou be Son of God, cast thyself down hence;
- for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee to keep thee;
- and on their hands shall they bear thee, lest in any wise thou strike thy foot against a stone.
- And Jesus answering said to him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
- And the devil, having completed every temptation, departed from him for a time.
- And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee; and a rumour went out into the whole surrounding country about him;
- and he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
- And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he entered, according to his custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.
- And the book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and having unrolled the book he found the place where it was written,
- The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to the blind sight, to send forth the crushed delivered,
- to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
- And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.
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