Luke 3-4

Luke 3

¹Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

²in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came upon John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

³And he came into all the district round the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins,

⁴as it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet: Voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

⁵Every gorge shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked places shall become a straight path, and the rough places smooth ways,

⁶and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

⁷He said therefore to the crowds which went out to be baptised by him, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?

⁸Produce therefore fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not to say in yourselves, We have Abraham for our father, for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

⁹And already also the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

¹⁰And the crowds asked him saying, What should we do then?

¹¹And he answering says to them, He that has two body-coats, let him give to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.

¹²And tax-gatherers came also to be baptised, and they said to him, Teacher, what should we do?

¹³And he said to them, Take no more money than what is appointed to you.

¹⁴And persons engaged in military service also asked him saying, And we, what should we do? And he said to them, Oppress no one, nor accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.

¹⁵But as the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John whether *he* might be the Christ,

¹⁶John answered all, saying, *I* indeed baptise you with water, but the mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to unloose; *he* shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire;

¹⁷whose winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

¹⁸Exhorting then many other things also he announced his glad tidings to the people.

¹⁹But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,

²⁰added this also to all the rest, that he shut up John in prison.

²¹And it came to pass, all the people having been baptised, and Jesus having been baptised and praying, that the heaven was opened,

²²and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him; and a voice came out of heaven, *Thou* art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.

²³And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years old; being as was supposed son of Joseph; of Eli,

²⁴of Matthat, of Levi, of Melchi, of Janna, of Joseph,

²⁵of Mattathias, of Amos, of Naoum, of Esli, of Naggai,

²⁶of Maath, of Mattathias, of Semei, of Joseph, of Juda,

²⁷of Joannes, of Resa, of Zorobabel, of Salathiel, of Neri,

²⁸of Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of Elmodam, of Er,

²⁹of Joses, of Eliezer, of Joreim, of Matthat, of Levi,

³⁰of Simeon, of Juda, of Joseph, of Jonan, of Eliakim,

³¹of Meleas, of Menan, of Mattatha, of Nathan, of David,

³²of Jesse, of Obed, of Booz, of Salmon, of Naasson,

³³of Aminadab, of Aram, of Esrom, of Phares, of Juda,

³⁴of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham, of Terah, of Nachor,

³⁵of Seruch, of Ragau, of Phalek, of Eber, of Sala,

³⁶of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Sem, of Noe, of Lamech,

³⁷of Methusala, of Enoch, of Jared, of Maleleel, of Cainan,

³⁸of Enos, of Seth, of Adam, of God.

Luke 4

¹But Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

²forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.

³And the devil said to him, If thou be Son of God, speak to this stone, that it become bread.

⁴And Jesus answered unto him saying, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

⁵And the devil, leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.

⁶And 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.

⁷If therefore *thou* wilt do homage before me, all of it shall be thine.

⁸And Jesus answering him said, It is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.

⁹And 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;

¹⁰for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee to keep thee;

¹¹and on their hands shall they bear thee, lest in any wise thou strike thy foot against a stone.

¹²And Jesus answering said to him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

¹³And the devil, having completed every temptation, departed from him for a time.

¹⁴And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee; and a rumour went out into the whole surrounding country about him;

¹⁵and *he* taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

¹⁶And 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.

¹⁷And the book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and having unrolled the book he found the place where it was written,

¹⁸The 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,

¹⁹to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

²⁰And 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.

²¹And he began to say to them, To-day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.

²²And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

²³And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.

²⁴And he said, Verily I say to you, that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

²⁵But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,

²⁶and to none of them was Elias sent but to Sarepta of Sidonia, to a woman that was a widow.

²⁷And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.

²⁸And they were all filled with rage in the synagogue, hearing these things;

²⁹and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, so that they might throw him down the precipice;

³⁰but *he*, passing through the midst of them, went his way,

³¹and descended to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbaths.

³²And they were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was with authority.

³³And there was in the synagogue a man having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried with a loud voice,

³⁴saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

³⁵And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out from him. And the demon, having thrown him down into the midst, came out from him without doing him any injury.

³⁶And astonishment came upon all, and they spoke to one another, saying, What word is this? for with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.

³⁷And a rumour went out into every place of the country round concerning him.

³⁸And rising up out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon. But Simon's mother-in-law was suffering under a bad fever; and they asked him for her.

³⁹And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and forthwith standing up she served them.

⁴⁰And when the sun went down, all, as many as had persons sick with divers diseases, brought them to him, and having laid his hands on every one of them, he healed them;

⁴¹and demons also went out from many, crying out and saying, *Thou* art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

⁴²And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place, and the crowds sought after him, and came up to him, and would have kept him back that he should not go from them.

⁴³But he said to them, I must needs announce the glad tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for for this I have been sent forth.

⁴⁴And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.