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Luke 4

1 Jesus is led into the wilderness to be tempted 13 He overcometh the devil. 14 He goeth into Galile, 16 Preacheth at Nazaret, and Capernaum. 22 The Jewes despise him. 38 He cometh into Peter’s house, and healeth his mother in law. 41 The devils acknowledge Christ. 43 He preacheth through the cities.
1.And Jesus ful of the holie Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2.*And was there fourtie dayes tempted of the devil, and in those dayes ahe did eat nothing: but when they were ended, he afterward was hungrie.
3.Then the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, commande this stone that it be made bread.
4.But Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, *That man shal not live by bread only, but by every bword of God.
5.Then the devil took him up into an high mountaine, & shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, ^in the twinkeling of an eye.
6.And the devil said unto him, All this power will I cgive thee, and the glory of those kingdoms: for that is delivered to me: and to whomsoever I will, I give it,
7.If thou therefore wilt ^worship me, they shalbe all thine.
8.But Jesus answered him, and said, ^Hence from me, Satan: for it is written, *Thou shalt worship the Lord thy dGod, and him alone thou shalt serve.
9.Then he brought him to eJerusalem, and set him on a pinacle of the Temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thy self down from hence,
10.For it is written, *That he will give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee:
11.And with their hands they shal lift thee up, lest at any time thou shuldest dash thy foot against a stone.
12.And Jesus answered and said unto him, It is said, *Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
13.And when the devil had ended all the tentacion, he departed from him ffor a season.
14.¶ And Jesus returned by the power of the spirit into Galile: & there went a fame of him throughout all the region round about.
15.For he taught in their Synagogues, and was honoured of all men.
16.*And he came to Nazaret where he had been brought up, and (as his custom was) went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
17.And there was delivered unto him the book of the Prophet Esaias: and when he had opened the book, he found the place, where it was written,
18.*The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath gannointed me, that I should preach the Gospel to the poor: he hath sent me, that I should heal the broken hearted, that I should preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, that I should set at liberty them that are bruised,
19.And that I should preach the hacceptable year of the Lord.
20.And he closed the book, and gave it again to the minister, and sat down: and the eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastened on him.
21.Then he began to say unto them, This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears.
22.And all ibare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words, which proceded out of his mouth, and said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
23.Then he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physicion, kheal thy self: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do it here likewise in thine own country.
24.And he said, Verely I say unto you, *No lProphet is accepted in his own country.
25.But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of *Elias, when heaven was shut three years and six moneths, when great famine was throughout all the land,
26.But unto none of them was Elias sent, save into Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a mcertain widow.
27.Also many lepers were in Israel, in the time of *Eliseus the Prophet: yet none of them was made clean, saving Naaman the Syrian.
28.Then all that were in the Synagogue, when they heard it, were nfilled with wrath,
29.And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the edge of the hill, whereon their city was built, to cast him down headlong.
30.But he passed othrough the middes of them, & went his way, 31¶ *And came down into Capernaum a city of Galile, and there taught them on the Sabbath days.
32.*And they were astonied at his doctrine: for his word was with pauthority.
33.And in the Synagogue there was a man which had a qspirit of an unclean devil, which cryed with a loud voyce,
34.Saying, Oh, what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazaret? art thou come to destroy us? I know who thou art, even the Holie one of God.
35.And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. Then the devil throwing him in the middes of them, came out of him, and hurt him not.
36.So fear came on them all, and they spake among them selves, saying, What thing is this? for with authority and power he commandeth the foul spirits, and they come out?
37.And the fame of him spread abroad throughout all the places of the country round about.
38.*And he rose up, and came out of the Synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wive’s mother was taken with a great fever, and they required him for her.
39.Then he stood over her, and rebuked the fever, and it left her: and immediately she arose, and ministered unto them.
40.Now when the sun was down, all they that had sick folkes of divers diseases, brought them unto him, and he laied his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
41.*And devils also came out of many, crying, and saying, rThou art the Christ the Son of God: but he rebuked them, and suffered them not to say that they knewe him to be the Christ.
42.And when it was day, he departed and went forth into a desert place, and the people sought him, and came to him, and kept him that he should not depart from them.
43.But he said unto them, Surely I must also preach the kingdom of God to other cities: for therefore am I sent.
44.And he preached in the Synagogues of Galile.

Notes

2-*.
Mt. 4.2, Mk. 1.13.
2-a.
This fast was miraculous, to confirm the Gospel, and ought no more of men to be followed then the other miracles that Christ did.
4-*.
Deut. 8.3, Mt. 4.4.
4-b.
That is, by the ordinance, and providence of God.
5-^.
Greek, in a moment of time.
6-c.
Satan promises that, which he can not give, thinking thereby that he might deceive the more craftily: for he is but prince of the world by permission, and has his power limited.
7-^.
Or, fall down before me.
8-*.
Deut. 6.13 and 10.20.
8-^.
Greek, Go behind me.
8-d.
Christ shows that all creation ought only to worship and serve God.
9-e.
This declares how hard it is to resist the tentations of Satan: for he gives not over for twise or thrice putting back.
10-*.
Ps. 91.11.
12-*.
Deut. 6.16.
13-f.
It is not enough, twice or thrise to resist Satan: for he never ceases to tempt: or if he relent a little, it is to the end, that he may renew his force and assail us more sharply.
16-*.
Mt. 13.54, Mk. 6.1, John 4.43.
18-*.
Is. 61.1.
18-g.
That is, endued with graces.
19-h.
He alludes to the year of Jubilee, which is mentioned in the Law, whereby this great deliverance was figured.
22-i.
They approved and commented whatsoever he said.
23-k.
Bestow your benefits upon them, which appertain more unto you.
24-*.
John 4.44.
24-l.
Their infidelity stayed Christ from working miracles.
25-*.
1 Kings 17.9, Jam. 5.17.
26-m.
He shows by examples that God oft times prefers the strangers to them of the household.
27-*.
2 Kings 5.14.
28-n.
Because they perceived that the grace of God should be taken from them and given to others.
30-o.
And escaped miraculously out of their hands: for his hour was not yet come.
31-*.
Mt. 4.13, Mk. 1.21.
32-*.
Mt. 7.29, Mk. 1.22.
32-p.
Full of dignity and majesty, which touched the heart of the auditors and caused them to bear reverence to his words.
33-q.
That is, the motion of the devil, or that was tormented with a very devil.
38-*.
Mt. 8.14, Mk. 1.29.
41-*.
Mk. 1.34.
41-r.
The devils are constrained to confess Christ to be the Son of God, and yet it does nothing avail them because it comes not of faith.