1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

3 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

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

5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I want. 7 If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."

8 Jesus answered him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’"

9 He led him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here, 10 for it is written,

‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;’

11 and,

‘On their hands they will bear you up,

lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’"

12 Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’"

13 When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

14 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. 15 He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me,

because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.

He has sent me to heal the broken hearted,

to proclaim release to the captives,

recovering of sight to the blind,

to deliver those who are crushed,

19 and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

20 He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

22 All testified about him and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, "Isn’t this Joseph’s son?"

23 He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’" 24 He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. 26 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."

28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things. 29 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff. 30 But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

31 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day, 32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority. 33 In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice, 34 saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!"

35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

36 Amazement came on all and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!" 37 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.

38 He rose up from the synagogue and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him to help her. 39 He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them. 40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. 41 Demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

42 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them. 43 But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent." 44 He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

1 En Jesus het vol van die Heilige Gees teruggekeer van die Jordaan af, en is deur die Gees in die woestyn gelei,

2 waar Hy veertig dae lank deur die duiwel versoek is; en Hy het niks geëet in die dae nie; en toe hulle verby was, het Hy naderhand honger geword.

3 Toe sê die duiwel vir Hom: As U die Seun van God is, sê vir hierdie klip dat dit brood moet word.

4 Maar Jesus antwoord en sê vir hom: Daar is geskrywe: Die mens sal nie van brood alleen lewe nie, maar van elke woord van God.

5 Toe bring die duiwel Hom op 'n hoë berg en wys Hom al die koninkryke van die wêreld in 'n oomblik se tyd.

6 En die duiwel sê vir Hom: Ek sal U al hierdie mag gee en hulle heerlikheid, want dit is aan my oorgegee, en ek gee dit aan wie ek wil.

7 As U my dan aanbid, sal alles aan U behoort.

8 En Jesus antwoord en sê vir hom: Gaan weg agter My, Satan, want daar is geskrywe: Die Here jou God moet jy aanbid en Hom alleen dien.

9 Toe bring hy Hom na Jerusalem en stel Hom op die dak van die tempel en sê vir Hom: As U die Seun van God is, werp Uself hiervandaan neer.

10 Want daar is geskrywe: Hy sal sy engele bevel gee aangaande U om U te bewaar,

11 en hulle sal U op die hande dra, sodat U nie miskien u voet teen 'n klip stamp nie.

12 En Jesus antwoord en sê vir hom: Daar is gesê: Jy mag die Here jou God nie versoek nie.

13 En toe die duiwel elke versoeking geëindig het, het hy 'n tyd lank van Hom gewyk.

14 En Jesus het in die krag van die Gees na Galil,a teruggekeer, en daar het 'n gerug aangaande Hom deur die hele omtrek uitgegaan;

15 en Hy het in hulle sinagoges geleer en is deur almal geprys.

16 Toe kom Hy in N saret waar Hy opgevoed was; en soos Hy gewoond was, gaan Hy op die sabbatdag in die sinagoge en staan op om te lees.

17 En die boek van die profeet Jesaja is aan Hom oorhandig; en toe Hy die boek oopmaak, kry Hy die plek waar geskrywe is:

18 Die Gees van die Here is op My, omdat Hy My gesalf het om die evangelie aan die armes te bring. Hy het My gestuur om die wat verbryseld van hart is, te genees;

19 om aan gevangenes vrylating te verkondig en aan blindes herstel van gesig; om die wat gebroke is, in vryheid weg te stuur; om die aangename jaar van die Here aan te kondig.

20 En nadat Hy die boek toegemaak en aan die dienaar teruggegee het, gaan Hy sit, en die oë van almal in die sinagoge was op Hom gevestig.

21 Toe begin Hy vir hulle te sê: Vandag is hierdie Skrif in julle ore vervul.

22 En almal het vir Hom getuienis gegee en was verwonderd oor die aangename woorde wat uit sy mond kom; en hulle sê: Is Hy nie die seun van Josef nie?

23 En Hy antwoord hulle: Julle sal My ongetwyfeld hierdie spreekwoord toevoeg: Geneesheer, genees uself! Alles wat ons hoor wat in Kap,rnam gebeur het, doen dit hier in u vaderstad ook.

24 En Hy sê: Voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, geen profeet is aangenaam in sy vaderland nie.

25 Maar Ek sê vir julle met waarheid, daar was baie weduwees in Israel in die dae van El¡a toe die hemel toegesluit was drie jaar en ses maande lank, toe daar 'n groot hongersnood gekom het in die hele land,

26 en na nie een van hulle is El¡a gestuur nie, behalwe na Sarfat in Sidon, na 'n weduwee.

27 En daar was baie melaatses in Israel in die tyd van El¡sa, die profeet, en nie een van hulle is gereinig nie, behalwe Na„man, die S¡riër.

28 En almal in die sinagoge is met woede vervul toe hulle dit hoor;

29 en hulle het opgestaan en Hom uit die stad uitgedryf en Hom gebring tot op die rand van die berg waarop hulle stad gebou was, om Hom van die krans af te gooi.

30 Maar Hy het tussen hulle deur geloop en weggegaan.

31 En Hy het afgekom na Kap,rnam, 'n stad van Galil,a, en hulle op die sabbat geleer.

32 En hulle was verslae oor sy leer, want sy woord was met gesag.

33 En in die sinagoge was daar 'n man met die gees van 'n onreine duiwel, en hy het met 'n groot stem uitgeskreeu

34 en gesê: Ha! wat het ons met U te doen, Jesus, Nasar,ner? Het U gekom om ons te verdelg? Ek ken U, wie U is: die Heilige van God!

35 En Jesus het hom bestraf en gesê: Bly stil, en gaan uit hom uit! En die duiwel het hom tussen hulle neergegooi en uit hom uitgegaan sonder om hom seer te maak.

36 Toe kom daar verbaasdheid oor almal, en hulle praat met mekaar en sê: Wat vir 'n woord is dit, dat Hy met gesag en mag die onreine geeste gebied, en hulle gaan uit!

37 En daar het 'n gerug aangaande Hom uitgegaan na elke plek van die omgewing.

38 En Hy het opgestaan uit die sinagoge en in die huis van Simon gekom. En Simon se skoonmoeder was aangetas deur 'n hewige koors, en hulle het Hom geraadpleeg oor haar.

39 Toe gaan Hy oor haar staan en bestraf die koors, en dit het haar verlaat, en sy het onmiddellik opgestaan en hulle bedien.

40 En toe die son ondergaan, het almal hulle siekes, mense met allerhande kwale, na Hom gebring, en Hy het een vir een van hulle die hande opgelê en hulle gesond gemaak.

41 En duiwels het ook uit baie uitgegaan en geskreeu en gesê: U is die Christus, die Seun van God! En Hy het hulle bestraf en nie toegelaat om te praat nie, omdat hulle geweet het dat Hy die Christus was.

42 En toe dit dag geword het, het Hy uitgegaan en na 'n verlate plek vertrek; en die skare het Hom gesoek en by Hom gekom en Hom teëgehou, dat Hy nie van hulle sou weggaan nie.

43 Maar Hy het vir hulle gesê: Ek moet aan die ander stede ook die evangelie van die koninkryk van God bring, want daarvoor is Ek gestuur.

44 En Hy het verder in die sinagoges van Galil,a gepreek.