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Luke 4:12-28 Modern English Version (MEV)

12. Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”

13. When the devil had ended all the temptations, he departed from Him until another time.

14. Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee. And His fame went throughout the surrounding region.

15. He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by everyone.

16. He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day. And He stood up to read.

17. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. When He had unrolled the scroll, He found the place where it was written:

18. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,because He has anointed Meto preach the gospel to the poor;He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted,to preach deliverance to the captivesand recovery of sight to the blind,to set at liberty those who are oppressed;

19. to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”

20. Then He rolled up the scroll, and He gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all those who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.

21. And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

22. All bore witness to Him, and wondered at the gracious words which came from His mouth. Then they said, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

23. He said to them, “You will surely say to Me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal Yourself. Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in Your country.’ ”

24. He also said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country.

25. But I tell you truthfully, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land.

26. Yet to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, a city of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

27. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. But none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

28. All those in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath.

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