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Luke 4

KJ3 Literal Translation — Chapter 4 of 24

1 And full of the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the deserted place, forty days, being tried by the devil. And He ate nothing in those days, and they being ended, He afterwards hungered.

2 forty days, being tried by the devil. And He ate nothing in those days, and they being ended, He afterwards hungered.

3 And the devil said to Him, If You are Son of God, speak to this stone that it become a loaf.

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Chapter Summary

1 The temptation and fasting of Christ. 13 He overcomes the devil: 14 begins to preach. 33 He cures one possessed of a devil, 38 Peter’s mother-in-law, 40 and other sick persons.

Key Greek Words

πειράζω to tempt, try G3985
διάβολος devil G1228
πνεῦμα Spirit G4151
ἐξουσία authority G1849
εὐαγγελίζω to proclaim good news G2097
δαιμόνιον demon G1140

People & Context

Jesus

Tempted forty days in the wilderness, preaches in the synagogues, casts out a demon and heals the sick

the Devil

Also called Satan; tempts Jesus with bread, the kingdoms of the world, and the temple pinnacle

Simon

Owner of the house in Capernaum; Jesus heals his mother-in-law of a great fever

Elijah

Cited by Jesus: the prophet sent to the widow of Zarephath during the famine

Elisha

Cited by Jesus: the prophet in whose time only Naaman the Syrian was cleansed of leprosy

Naaman

The Syrian leper named by Jesus as the one cleansed in Elisha's day

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