Luke 3-4

Luke 3

¹Now in the fifteenth year of the rule of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being ruler of Judaea, and Herod being king of Galilee, his brother Philip king of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias king of Abilene,

²When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.

³And he came into all the country round about Jordan, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.

⁴As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

⁵Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;

⁶And all flesh will see the salvation of God.

⁷So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

⁸Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

⁹And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.

¹⁰And the people put questions to him, saying, What have we to do?

¹¹And he made answer and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has not even one; and he who has food, let him do the same.

¹²Then tax-farmers came to him for baptism and said to him, Master, what have we to do?

¹³And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.

¹⁴And men of the army put questions to him, saying, And what have we to do? And he said to them, Do no violent acts to any man, and do not take anything without right, and let your payment be enough for you.

¹⁵And while the people were waiting, and all men were questioning in their hearts about John, if he was the Christ or not,

¹⁶John made answer, saying to them all, Truly, I give you baptism with water, but one is coming who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:

¹⁷In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.

¹⁸And so comforting them with these and other words, he gave the good news to the people;

¹⁹But Herod the king, because John had made a protest on account of Herodias, his brother's wife, and other evil things which Herod had done,

²⁰Did this most evil thing of all, and had John shut up in prison.

²¹Now it came about that when all the people had been given baptism, Jesus, having had baptism with them, was in prayer, when, the heaven being open,

²²The Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

²³And Jesus at this time was about thirty years old, being the son (as it seemed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

²⁴The son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

²⁵The son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,

²⁶The son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,

²⁷The son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

²⁸The son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,

²⁹The son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

³⁰The son of Symeon, the son of Judas, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,

³¹The son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

³²The son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

³³The son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

³⁴The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

³⁵The son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

³⁶The son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

³⁷The son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

³⁸The son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Luke 4

¹And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was guided by the Spirit in the waste land

²For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.

³And the Evil One said to him, If you are the Son of God, give orders to this stone to become bread.

⁴And Jesus made answer to him, It has been said in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need.

⁵And he took him up and let him see all the kingdoms of the earth in a minute of time.

⁶And the Evil One said, I will give you authority over all these, and the glory of them, for it has been given to me, and I give it to anyone at my pleasure.

⁷If then you will give worship to me, it will all be yours.

⁸And Jesus in answer said to him, It has been said in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God, and be his servant only.

⁹And he took him to Jerusalem and put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down from here; for it is said in the Writings,

¹⁰He will give his angels orders to take care of you:

¹¹And, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

¹²And Jesus made answer and said to him, It is said in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.

¹³And when all these tests were ended the Evil One went away from him for a time.

¹⁴And Jesus came back to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news of him went through all the country round about.

¹⁵And he was teaching in their Synagogues and all men gave him praise.

¹⁶And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading.

¹⁷And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,

¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

¹⁹To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure is come.

²⁰And shutting the book he gave it back to the servant and took his seat: and the eyes of all in the Synagogue were fixed on him.

²¹Then he said to them, Today this word has come true in your hearing.

²²And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

²³And he said to them, Without doubt you will say to me, Let the medical man make himself well: the things which to our knowledge were done at Capernaum, do them here in your country.

²⁴And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.

²⁵Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;

²⁶But Elijah was not sent to one of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

²⁷And there were a number of lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and not one of them was made clean, but only Naaman the Syrian.

²⁸And all who were in the Synagogue were very angry when these things were said to them.

²⁹And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death.

³⁰But he came through them and went on his way.

³¹And he came down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee; and he was giving them teaching on the Sabbath.

³²And they were surprised at his teaching, for his word was with authority.

³³And there was a man in the Synagogue who had an unclean spirit; and he gave a loud cry and said,

³⁴Let us be! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I have knowledge who you are, the Holy One of God.

³⁵And Jesus said to him, Be quiet, and come out of him. And when the evil spirit had put him down on the earth in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no damage.

³⁶And wonder came on them all and they said to one another, What are these words? for with authority and power he gives orders to the evil spirits and they come out.

³⁷And there was much talk about him in all the places round about.

³⁸And he got up and went out of the Synagogue and went into the house of Simon. And Simon's wife's mother was very ill with a burning heat; and in answer to their prayers for her

³⁹He went near her, and with a sharp word he gave orders to the disease and it went away from her; and straight away she got up and took care of their needs.

⁴⁰And at sundown all those who had anyone ill with any sort of disease, took them to him, and he put his hands on every one of them and made them well.

⁴¹And evil spirits came out of a number of them, crying out and saying, You are the Son of God. But he gave them sharp orders not to say a word, because they had knowledge that he was the Christ.

⁴²And when it was day, he came out and went to a waste place; and great numbers of people came looking for him, and they came to him and would have kept him from going away.

⁴³But he said to them, I have to give the good news of the kingdom of God in other towns, because that is why I was sent.

⁴⁴And he was teaching in the Synagogues of Galilee.