These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Luke 4
Brit Hadashah 44 verses
- 1 Then , full of the Holy , returned from the , and was led about by the in the Desert for forty days,
- 2 tempted all the while by the Devil. During those days He ate nothing, and at the close of them He suffered from hunger.
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Then the Devil said to Him, “If you are Elohim’s Son, tell this stone to become bread.”
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- 4 “It is written,” replied , “’It is not on bread alone that a man shall live.’”
- 5 The Devil next led Him up and caused Him to see at a glance all the kingdoms of the world.
- 6 And the Devil said to Him, “To you will I give all this authority and this splendour; for it has been handed over to me, and on whomsoever I will I bestow it.
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If therefore you do homage to me, it shall all be yours.’
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- 8 answered him, “It is written, ‘To the Lord thy thou shalt do homage, and to Him alone shalt thou render .’”
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Then he brought Him to and caused Him to stand on the roof of the Temple, and said to Him, “If you are Elohim’s Son, throw yourself down from here; for it is written,
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He will give orders to His angels concerning thee, to guard thee safely;’
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and ‘On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest at any moment thou shouldst strike thy foot against a stone.’”
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The reply of was, “It is said, ‘Thou shalt not put the Lord they to the proof.’”
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So the Devil, having fully tried every kind of temptation on Him, left Him for a time.
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Then returned in the Spirit’s power to ; and His fame spread through all the adjacent districts.
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And He proceeded to teach in their synagogues, winning from all.
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He came to also, where He had been brought up; and, as was His custom, He went to the on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.
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And there was handed to Him the book of the Prophet , and, opening the book, He found the place where it was written,
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“The of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to proclaim Good News to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners of war and recovery of sight to the blind: to send away free those whom tyranny has crushed,
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to proclaim the year of acceptance with the Lord.”
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And rolling up the book, He returned it to the attendant, and sat down—to speak. And the eyes of all in the were fixed on Him.
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Then He proceeded to say to them, “To-day is this Scripture fulfilled in your hearing.”
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- 22 And they all spoke well of Him, wondering at the sweet words of kindness which fell from His lips, while they asked one another, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”
- 23 “Doubtless,” said He, “you will quote to me the proverb, ‘Physician, cure yourself: all that we that you have done at , do here also in your native place.’”
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“I tell you in solemn ,” He added, “that no Prophet is welcomed among his own people.
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- 25 But I tell you in that there was many a widow in in the time of , when there was no rain for three years and six months and there came a severe famine over all the land;
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and yet to not one of them was sent: he was only sent to a widow at Zarephath in the Sidonian country.
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And there was also many a leper in in the time of the Prophet , and yet not one of them was cleansed, but Naaman the Syrian was.”
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- 28 Then all in the , while listening to these words, were filled with fury.
- 29 They rose, hurried Him outside the town, and brought Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to throw Him down the cliff;
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but He passed through the midst of them and went His way.
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- 31 So He came down to , a town in , where He frequently taught the people on the Sabbath days.
- 32 And they were greatly impressed by His teaching, because He spoke with the language of authority.
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But in the there was a man possessed by the of a foul . In a loud voice he cried out,
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- 34 “Ha! the Nazarene, what have you to do with us? I who you are—Elohim’s Holy One!”
- 35 But rebuked the . “Silence!” He exclaimed; “come out of him.” Upon this, the hurled the man into the midst of them, and came out of him without doing him any harm.
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All were astonished and awe-struck; and they asked one another, “What sort of language is this? For with authority and real power He gives orders to the foul spirits and they come out.”
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And the talk about Him spread into every part of the neighbouring country.
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Now when He rose and left the He went to Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in- was suffering from an acute attack of fever; and they consulted Him about her.
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Then standing over her He rebuked the fever, and it left her; and she at once rose and waited on them.
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- 40 At sunset all who had friends suffering from any illness brought them to Him, and He laid His hands on them all, one by one, and cured them.
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Demons also came out of many, loudly calling out, “You are the Son of .” But He rebuked them and forbad them to speak, because they knew Him to be the .
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Next morning, at daybreak, He left the town and went away to a solitary place; but the people flocked out to find Him, and, coming to the place where He was, they endeavoured to detain Him that He might not leave them.
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But He said to them, “I have to tell the Good News of the Kingdom of to the other towns also, because for this purpose I was sent.”
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And for some time He preached in the synagogues in .
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