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The Four Gospels Chapter 4

Chapter 48 of 89

Canonical reference Luke 4

English

World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)

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.

French

Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)

1. Jésus, rempli de l’Esprit-Saint, revint du Jourdain, et il fut poussé par l’Esprit dans le désert,
2. pendant quarante jours, en butte aux tentations du diable. Il ne mangea rien durant ces jours-là, et quand ils furent passés, il eut faim.
3. Alors le diable lui dit : « Si tu es Fils de Dieu, commande à cette pierre de se changer en pain. »
4. Jésus lui répondit : « Il est écrit : L’homme ne vit pas seulement de pain, mais de toute parole de Dieu.»
5. Et le diable l’ayant emmené sur une haute montagne, lui montra en un instant tous les royaumes de la terre,
6. et lui dit : « Je te donnerai toute cette puissance et toute la gloire de ces royaumes ; car elle m’a été livrée, et je la donne à qui je veux.
7. Si donc tu te prosternes devant moi, elle sera toute à toi. »
8. Jésus lui répondit : « Il est écrit : Tu adoreras le Seigneur ton Dieu, et tu le serviras lui seul.»
9. Le démon le conduisit encore à Jérusalem, et l’ayant placé sur le pinacle du temple, il lui dit : « Si tu es Fils de Dieu, jette-toi d’ici en bas.
10. Car il est écrit : Il a été donné pour toi l’ordre à ses anges de te garder,
11. et ils te prendront entre leurs mains, de peur que ton pied ne heurte contre la pierre.»
12. Jésus lui répondit : « Il a été écrit : Tu ne tenteras pas le Seigneur ton Dieu.»
13. Après l’avoir ainsi tenté de toutes manières, le diable se retira de lui pour un temps.
14. Alors Jésus retourna en Galilée, dans la puissance de l’Esprit, et sa renommée se répandit dans tout le pays d’alentour.
15. Il enseignait dans leurs synagogues, et tous publiaient ses louanges.
16. Étant venu à Nazareth, où il avait été élevé, il entra, selon sa coutume, le jour du sabbat dans la synagogue, et se leva pour faire la lecture.
17. On lui remit le livre du prophète Isaïe ; et l’ayant déroulé, il trouva l’endroit où il était écrit :
18. « L’Esprit du Seigneur est sur moi, parce qu’il m’a consacré par son onction, pour porter la bonne nouvelle aux pauvres, et il m’a envoyé guérir ceux qui ont le cœur brisé,
19. annoncer aux captifs la délivrance, aux aveugles le retour à la vue, pour rendre libres les opprimés, publier l’année favorable du Seigneur.»
20. Ayant roulé le livre, il le rendit au ministre et s’assit ; et tous, dans la synagogue, avaient les yeux attachés sur lui.
21. Alors, il commença à leur dire : « Aujourd’hui vos oreilles ont entendu l’accomplissement de cet oracle. »
22. Et tous lui rendaient témoignage, et admirant les paroles de grâce qui sortaient de sa bouche, ils disaient : « N’est-ce pas là le fils de Joseph ? »
23. Et il leur dit : « Sans doute, vous m’alléguerez cet adage : Médecin, guéris-toi toi-même ; et vous me direz : Les grandes choses que nous avons ouï dire que tu as faites à Capharnaüm, fais-les ici dans ta patrie. »
24. Et il ajouta : « En vérité, je vous le dis, aucun prophète n’est bien reçu dans sa patrie.
25. Je vous le dis, en vérité, il y avait beaucoup de veuves en Israël aux jours d’Élie, lorsque le ciel fut fermé pendant trois ans et six mois, et qu’il y eut une grande famine dans toute la terre ;
26. et pourtant Élie ne fut envoyé à aucune d’elles, mais à une veuve de Sarepta, dans le pays de Sidon.
27. Il y avait de même beaucoup de lépreux en Israël au jours du prophète Élisée ; et pourtant aucun d’eux ne fut guéri, mais bien Naaman le Syrien. »
28. En entendant cela, ils furent tous remplis de colère dans la synagogue.
29. Et s’étant levés, ils le poussèrent hors de la ville, et le menèrent jusqu’à un escarpement de la montagne sur laquelle leur ville était bâtie pour le précipiter en bas.
30. Mais lui, passant au milieu d’eux, s’en alla.
31. Il descendit à Capharnaüm, ville de Galilée, et là il enseignait les jours de sabbat.
32. Et sa doctrine les frappait d’étonnement, parce qu’il parlait avec autorité.
33. Il y avait dans la synagogue un homme possédé d’un démon impur, lequel jeta un grand cri,
34. disant : « Laissez-moi , qu’avons-nous à faire avec toi, Jésus de Nazareth ? Es-tu venu pour nous perdre ? Je sais qui tu es : le Saint de Dieu. »
35. Mais Jésus lui dit d’un ton sévère : « Tais-toi, et sors de cet homme. » Et le démon l’ayant jeté par terre au milieu de l’assemblée, sortit de lui sans lui avoir fait aucun mal.
36. Et tous, saisis de stupeur, se disaient entre eux : « Quelle est cette parole ? Il commande avec autorité et puissance aux esprits impurs, et ils sortent ! »
37. Et sa renommée se répandait de tous côtés dans le pays.
38. S’étant alors levé, Jésus quitta la synagogue, et entra dans la maison de Simon. Or, la belle-mère de Simon était atteinte d’une grosse fièvre, et ils le prièrent pour elle.
39. Se penchant sur la malade, il commanda à la fièvre, et la fièvre la quitta ; et s’étant levée aussitôt, elle se mit à les servir.
40. Lorsque le soleil fut couché, tous ceux qui avaient chez eux des malades, quel que fût leur mal, les lui amenèrent ; et Jésus, imposant la main à chacun d’eux, les guérit.
41. Des démons aussi sortaient de plusieurs, criant et disant : « Tu es le Fils de Dieu » ; et il les réprimandait pour leur imposer silence, parce qu’ils savaient qu’il était le Christ.
42. Dès que le jour parut, il sortit et s’en alla en un lieu désert. Une foule de gens se mirent à sa recherche, et étant arrivés jusqu’à lui, ils voulaient le retenir, pour qu’il ne les quittât pas.
43. Mais il leur dit : « Il faut que j’annonce aussi aux autres villes le royaume de Dieu, car je suis envoyé pour cela. »
44. Et Jésus prêchait dans les synagogues de la Galilée.

Latin

Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)

1. Jesus autem plenus Spiritu Sancto regressus est a Jordane: et agebatur a Spiritu in desertum
2. diebus quadraginta, et tentabatur a diabolo. Et nihil manducavit in diebus illis: et consummatis illis esuriit.
3. Dixit autem illi diabolus: Si Filius Dei es, dic lapidi huic ut panis fiat.
4. Et respondit ad illum Jesus: Scriptum est: Quia non in solo pane vivit homo, sed in omni verbo Dei.
5. Et duxit illum diabolus in montem excelsum, et ostendit illi omnia regna orbis terræ in momento temporis,
6. et ait illi: Tibi dabo potestatem hanc universam, et gloriam illorum: quia mihi tradita sunt, et cui volo do illa.
7. Tu ergo si adoraveris coram me, erunt tua omnia.
8. Et respondens Jesus, dixit illi: Scriptum est: Dominum Deum tuum adorabis, et illi soli servies.
9. Et duxit illum in Jerusalem, et statuit eum super pinnam templi, et dixit illi: Si Filius Dei es, mitte te hinc deorsum.
10. Scriptum est enim quod angelis suis mandavit de te, ut conservent te:
11. et quia in manibus tollent te, ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum.
12. Et respondens Jesus, ait illi: Dictum est: Non tentabis Dominum Deum tuum.
13. Et consummata omni tentatione, diabolus recessit ab illo, usque ad tempus.
14. Et regressus est Jesus in virtute Spiritus in Galilæam, et fama exiit per universam regionem de illo.
15. Et ipse docebat in synagogis eorum, et magnificabatur ab omnibus.
16. Et venit Nazareth, ubi erat nutritus, et intravit secundum consuetudinem suam die sabbati in synagogam, et surrexit legere.
17. Et traditus est illi liber Isaiæ prophetæ. Et ut revolvit librum, invenit locum ubi scriptum erat:
18. Spiritus Domini super me: propter quod unxit me, evangelizare pauperibus misit me, sanare contritos corde,
19. prædicare captivis remissionem, et cæcis visum, dimittere confractos in remissionem, prædicare annum Domini acceptum et diem retributionis.
20. Et cum plicuisset librum, reddit ministro, et sedit. Et omnium in synagoga oculi erant intendentes in eum.
21. Cœpit autem dicere ad illos: Quia hodie impleta est hæc scriptura in auribus vestris.
22. Et omnes testimonium illi dabant: et mirabantur in verbis gratiæ, quæ procedebant de ore ipsius, et dicebant: Nonne hic est filius Joseph?
23. Et ait illis: Utique dicetis mihi hanc similitudinem: Medice cura teipsum: quanta audivimus facta in Capharnaum, fac et hic in patria tua.
24. Ait autem: Amen dico vobis, quia nemo propheta acceptus est in patria sua.
25. In veritate dico vobis, multæ viduæ erant in diebus Eliæ in Israël, quando clausum est cælum annis tribus et mensibus sex, cum facta esset fames magna in omni terra:
26. et ad nullam illarum missus est Elias, nisi in Sarepta Sidoniæ, ad mulierem viduam.
27. Et multi leprosi erant in Israël sub Eliseo propheta: et nemo eorum mundatus est nisi Naaman Syrus.
28. Et repleti sunt omnes in synagoga ira, hæc audientes.
29. Et surrexerunt, et ejecerunt illum extra civitatem: et duxerunt illum usque ad supercilium montis, super quem civitas illorum erat ædificata, ut præcipitarent eum.
30. Ipse autem transiens per medium illorum, ibat.
31. Et descendit in Capharnaum civitatem Galilææ, ibique docebat illos sabbatis.
32. Et stupebant in doctrina ejus, quia in potestate erat sermo ipsius.
33. Et in synagoga erat homo habens dæmonium immundum, et exclamavit voce magna,
34. dicens: Sine, quid nobis et tibi, Jesu Nazarene? venisti perdere nos? scio te quis sis, Sanctus Dei.
35. Et increpavit illum Jesus, dicens: Obmutesce, et exi ab eo. Et cum projecisset illum dæmonium in medium, exiit ab illo, nihilque illum nocuit.
36. Et factus est pavor in omnibus, et colloquebantur ad invicem, dicentes: Quod est hoc verbum, quia in potestate et virtute imperat immundis spiritibus, et exeunt?
37. Et divulgabatur fama de illo in omnem locum regionis.
38. Surgens autem Jesus de synagoga, introivit in domum Simonis. Socrus autem Simonis tenebatur magnis febribus: et rogaverunt illum pro ea.
39. Et stans super illam imperavit febri: et dimisit illam. Et continuo surgens, ministrabat illis.
40. Cum autem sol occidisset, omnes qui habebant infirmos variis languoribus, ducebant illos ad eum. At ille singulis manus imponens, curabat eos.
41. Exibant autem dæmonia a multis clamantia, et dicentia: Quia tu es Filius Dei: et increpans non sinebat ea loqui: quia sciebant ipsum esse Christum.
42. Facta autem die egressus ibat in desertum locum, et turbæ requirebant eum, et venerunt usque ad ipsum: et detinebant illum ne discederet ab eis.
43. Quibus ille ait: Quia et aliis civitatibus oportet me evangelizare regnum Dei: quia ideo missus sum.
44. Et erat prædicans in synagogis Galilææ.

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  1. Verse 1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
  2. Verse 2for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
  3. Verse 3The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
  4. Verse 4Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”
  5. Verse 5The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
  6. Verse 6The 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 who…
  7. Verse 7If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.”
  8. Verse 8Jesus answered him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.…
  9. Verse 9He 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 dow…
  10. Verse 10for it is written, ‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;’
  11. Verse 11and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’”
  12. Verse 12Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”
  13. Verse 13When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.
  14. Verse 14Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.
  15. Verse 15He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
  16. Verse 16He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stoo…
  17. Verse 17The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
  18. Verse 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 h…
  19. Verse 19and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
  20. Verse 20He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
  21. Verse 21He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
  22. Verse 22All testified about him and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s …
  23. Verse 23He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, d…
  24. Verse 24He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
  25. Verse 25But 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…
  26. Verse 26Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
  27. Verse 27There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”
  28. Verse 28They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue as they heard these things.
  29. Verse 29They 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 …
  30. Verse 30But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.
  31. Verse 31He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,
  32. Verse 32and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.
  33. Verse 33In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,
  34. Verse 34saying, “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. Verse 35Jesus 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…
  36. Verse 36Amazement came on all and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he comm…
  37. Verse 37News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
  38. Verse 38He rose up from the synagogue and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they be…
  39. Verse 39He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
  40. Verse 40When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every on…
  41. Verse 41Demons 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…
  42. Verse 42When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on t…
  43. Verse 43But 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. Verse 44He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

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