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

2 For 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.

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

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

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

6 And 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.

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

8 And 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.

9 And 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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

16 And 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.

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

18 The 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,

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

20 And 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.

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

22 And 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?

23 And 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.

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

25 Truly 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;

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

27 And 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.

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

29 And 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.

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

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

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

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

34 Let 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.

35 And 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.

36 And 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.

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

38 And 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

39 He 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.

40 And 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.

41 And 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.

42 And 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.

43 But 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.

44 And he was teaching in the Synagogues of Galilee.

1 OR Gesù, ripieno dello Spirito Santo, se ne ritornò dal Giordano; e fu sospinto dallo Spirito nel deserto.

2 E fu quivi tentato dal diavolo quaranta giorni; e in que’ giorni non mangiò nulla; ma, dopo che quelli furon compiuti, infine egli ebbe fame.

3 E il diavolo gli disse: Se tu sei Figliuol di Dio, di’ a questa pietra che divenga pane.

4 E Gesù gli rispose, dicendo: Egli è scritto: L’uomo non vive di pan solo, ma d’ogni parola di Dio.

5 E il diavolo, menatolo sopra un alto monte, gli mostrò in un momento di tempo tutti i regni del mondo.

6 E il diavolo gli disse: Io ti darò tutta la podestà di questi regni, e la gloria loro; perciocchè ella mi è stata data in mano, ed io la do a cui voglio.

7 Se dunque tu mi adori, tutta sarà tua.

8 Ma Gesù, rispondendo, gli disse: Vattene indietro da me, Satana. Egli è scritto: Adora il Signore Iddio tuo, e servi a lui solo.

9 Egli lo menò ancora in Gerusalemme; e lo pose sopra l’orlo del tetto del tempio, e gli disse: Se tu sei il Figliuol di Dio, gettati giù di qui;

10 perciocchè egli è scritto: Egli ordinerà a’ suoi angeli, che ti guardino;

11 ed essi ti leveranno nelle lor mani, che talora tu non t’intoppi del piè in alcuna pietra.

12 E Gesù, rispondendo, gli disse: Egli è stato detto: Non tentare il Signore Iddio tuo.

13 E il diavolo, finita tutta la tentazione, si partì da lui, infino ad un certo tempo

14 E GESÙ nella virtù dello Spirito, se ne tornò in Galilea; e la fama di esso andò per tutta la contrada circonvicina.

15 Ed egli insegnava nelle lor sinagoghe, essendo onorato da tutti.

16 E venne in Nazaret, ove era stato allevato; ed entrò, come era usato, in giorno di sabato, nella sinagoga; e si levò per leggere.

17 E gli fu dato in mano il libro del profeta Isaia; e, spiegato il libro, trovò quel luogo dove era scritto:

18 Lo Spirito del Signore è sopra me; perciocchè egli mi ha unto; egli mi ha mandato per evangelizzare a’ poveri, per guarire i contriti di cuore;

19 per bandir liberazione a’ prigioni, e racquisto della vista a’ ciechi; per mandarne in libertà i fiaccati, e per predicar l’anno accettevole del Signore.

20 Poi, ripiegato il libro, e rendutolo al ministro, si pose a sedere; e gli occhi di tutti coloro ch’erano nella sinagoga erano affissati in lui.

21 Ed egli prese a dir loro: Questa scrittura è oggi adempiuta ne’ vostri orecchi.

22 E tutti gli rendevano testimonianza, e si maravigliavano delle parole di grazia che procedevano dalla sua bocca, e dicevano: Non è costui il figliuol di Giuseppe?

23 Ed egli disse loro: Del tutto voi mi direte questo proverbio: Medico, cura te stesso; fa’ eziandio qui, nella tua patria, tutte le cose che abbiamo udite essere state fatte in Capernaum.

24 Ma egli disse: Io vi dico in verità, che niun profeta è accetto nella sua patria.

25 Io vi dico in verità, che a’ dì di Elia, quando il cielo fu serrato tre anni e sei mesi, talchè vi fu gran fame in tutto il paese, vi erano molte vedove in Israele;

26 e pure a niuna d’esse fu mandato Elia; anzi ad una donna vedova in Sarepta di Sidon.

27 Ed al tempo del profeta Eliseo vi erano molti lebbrosi in Israele; e pur niun di loro fu mondato; ma Naaman Siro.

28 E tutti furono ripieni d’ira nella sinagoga, udendo queste cose.

29 E levatisi, lo cacciarono della città, e lo menarono fino al margine della sommità del monte, sopra il quale la lor città era edificata, per traboccarlo giù.

30 Ma egli passò per mezzo loro, e se ne andò

31 E scese in Capernaum, città della Galilea; ed insegnava la gente ne’ sabati.

32 Ed essi stupivano della sua dottrina; perciocchè la sua parola era con autorità.

33 OR nella sinagoga vi era un uomo, che avea uno spirito d’immondo demonio; ed esso diede un gran grido, dicendo: Ahi!

34 che vi è fra te e noi, o Gesù Nazareno? sei tu venuto per mandarci in perdizione? io so chi tu sei: il Santo di Dio.

35 Ma Gesù lo sgridò, dicendo: Ammutolisci, ed esci fuor di lui. E il demonio, gettatolo quivi in mezzo, uscì da lui, senza avergli fatto alcun nocimento.

36 E spavento nacque in tutti; e ragionavan fra loro, dicendo: Quale è questa parola ch’egli, con autorità, e potenza, comandi agli spiriti immondi, ed essi escano fuori?

37 E il grido di esso andò per tutti i luoghi del paese circonvicino.

38 POI Gesù, levatosi della sinagoga, entrò nella casa di Simone. Or la suocera di Simone era tenuta d’una gran febbre; e lo richiesero per lei.

39 Ed egli, stando di sopra a lei, sgridò la febbre, ed essa la lasciò; ed ella, levatasi prontamente, ministrava loro.

40 E in sul tramontar del sole, tutti coloro che aveano degl’infermi di diverse malattie li menarono a lui; ed egli, imposte le mani sopra ciascun di loro, li guarì.

41 I demoni ancora uscivano di molti, gridando, e dicendo: Tu sei il Cristo, il Figliuol di Dio. Ma egli li sgridava, e non permetteva loro di parlare; perciocchè sapevano ch’egli era il Cristo.

42 Poi, fattosi giorno, egli uscì, e andò in un luogo deserto; e le turbe lo cercavano, e vennero infino a lui, e lo ritenevano; acciocchè non si partisse da loro.

43 Ma egli disse loro: Ei mi conviene evangelizzare il regno di Dio eziandio alle altre città; perciocchè a far questo sono stato mandato.

44 E andava predicando per le sinagoghe della Galilea