Luke 3-4

Luke 3

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

²Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests -- there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness,

³and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,

⁴as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, ‘A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths;

⁵every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straightness, and the rough become smooth ways;

⁶and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'

⁷Then said he to the multitudes coming forth to be baptised by him, ‘Brood of vipers! who did prompt you to flee from the coming wrath?

⁸make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father -- Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;

⁹and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.'

¹⁰And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, ‘What, then, shall we do?'

¹¹and he answering saith to them, ‘He having two coats -- let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals -- in like manner let him do.'

¹²And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, ‘Teacher, what shall we do?'

¹³and he said unto them, ‘Exact no more than that directed you.'

¹⁴And questioning him also were those warring, saying, ‘And we, what shall we do?' and he said unto them, ‘Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.'

¹⁵And the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ;

¹⁶John answered, saying to all, ‘I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals -- he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;

¹⁷whose winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat to his storehouse, and the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

¹⁸And, therefore, indeed with many other things, exhorting, he was proclaiming good news to the people,

¹⁹and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,

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

²¹And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,

²²and the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily appearance, as if a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, saying, ‘Thou art My Son -- the Beloved, in thee I did delight.'

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

²⁴the son of Eli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna, the son of Joseph,

²⁵the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Naum, the son of Esli,

²⁶the son of Naggai, the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semei, the son of Joseph, the son of Juda,

²⁷the son of Joanna, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,

²⁸the son of Neri, the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,

²⁹the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat,

³⁰the son of Levi, the son of Simeon, the son of Juda, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,

³¹the son of Melea, the son of Mainan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan,

³²the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Booz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

³³the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Esrom, the son of Pharez,

³⁴the son of Judah, the 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,

³⁶the son of Salah, the 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,

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

Luke 4

¹And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

²forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

³and the Devil said to him, ‘If Son thou art of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.'

⁴And Jesus answered him, saying, ‘It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.'

⁵And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

⁶and the Devil said to him, ‘To thee I will give all this authority, and their glory, because to me it hath been delivered, and to whomsoever I will, I do give it;

⁷thou, then, if thou mayest bow before me -- all shall be thine.'

⁸And Jesus answering him said, ‘Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

⁹And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, ‘If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,

¹⁰for it hath been written -- To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

¹¹and -- On hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou mayest dash against a stone thy foot.'

¹²And Jesus answering said to him -- ‘It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

¹³And having ended all temptation, the Devil departed from him till a convenient season.

¹⁴And Jesus turned back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a fame went forth through all the region round about concerning him,

¹⁵and he was teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

¹⁶And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;

¹⁷and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written:

¹⁸‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

¹⁹To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.'

²⁰And having folded the roll, having given it back to the officer, he sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were gazing on him.

²¹And he began to say unto them -- ‘To-day hath this writing been fulfilled in your ears;'

²²and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, ‘Is not this the son of Joseph?'

²³And he said unto them, ‘Certainly ye will say to me this simile, Physician, heal thyself; as great things as we heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country;'

²⁴and he said, ‘Verily I say to you -- No prophet is accepted in his own country;

²⁵and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,

²⁶and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but -- to Sarepta of Sidon, unto a woman, a widow;

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

²⁸And all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, hearing these things,

²⁹and having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built -- to cast him down headlong,

³⁰and he, having gone through the midst of them, went away.

³¹And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbaths,

³²and they were astonished at his teaching, because his word was with authority.

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

³⁴saying, ‘Away, what -- to us and to thee, Jesus, O Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.'

³⁵And Jesus did rebuke him, saying, ‘Be silenced, and come forth out of him;' and the demon having cast him into the midst, came forth from him, having hurt him nought;

³⁶and amazement came upon all, and they were speaking together, with one another, saying, ‘What is this word, that with authority and power he doth command the unclean spirits, and they come forth?'

³⁷and there was going forth a fame concerning him to every place of the region round about.

³⁸And having risen out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon, and the mother-in-law of Simon was pressed with a great fever, and they did ask him about her,

³⁹and having stood over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her, and presently, having risen, she was ministering to them.

⁴⁰And at the setting of the sun, all, as many as had any ailing with manifold sicknesses, brought them unto him, and he on each one of them his hands having put, did heal them.

⁴¹And demons also were coming forth from many, crying out and saying -- ‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of God;' and rebuking, he did not suffer them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

⁴²And day having come, having gone forth, he went on to a desert place, and the multitudes were seeking him, and they came unto him, and were staying him -- not to go on from them,

⁴³and he said unto them -- ‘Also to the other cities it behoveth me to proclaim good news of the reign of God, because for this I have been sent;'

⁴⁴and he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.