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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">where for forty days he was tempted</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">tempted </span><span class="ft">can also mean </span><span class="fqa">tested.</span></span></span><span class="content"> by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.4.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The devil said to him, &#8220;If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.4.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is written: &#8216;Man shall not live on bread alone.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="DEU.8.3">Deut. 8:3</span></span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.4.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And he said to him, &#8220;I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If you worship me, it will all be yours.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.4.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is written: &#8216;Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="DEU.6.13">Deut. 6:13</span></span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.4.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. &#8220;If you are the Son of God,&#8221; he said, &#8220;throw yourself down from here. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.4.10"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;He will command his angels concerning you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.4.10"><span class="content">to guard you carefully;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.4.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">they will lift you up in their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.4.11"><span class="content">so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:11 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.91.11">Psalm 91:11</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="PSA.91.12">12</span></span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.4.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is said: &#8216;Do not put the Lord your God to the test.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:12 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="DEU.6.16">Deut. 6:16</span></span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.4.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Rejected at Nazareth</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.4.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.4.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.4.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Spirit of the Lord is on me,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="wj"><span class="content">because he has anointed me</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="wj"><span class="content">to proclaim good news to the poor.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="wj"><span class="content">He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="wj"><span class="content">and recovery of sight for the blind,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="wj"><span class="content">to set the oppressed free,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to proclaim the year of the Lord&#8217;s favor.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:19 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.61.1">Isaiah 61:1</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="ISA.61.2">2</span> (see Septuagint); <span class="ref" usfm="ISA.58.6">Isaiah 58:6</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.4.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He began by saying to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.4.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this Joseph&#8217;s son?&#8221; they asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.4.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Surely you will quote this proverb to me: &#8216;Physician, heal yourself!&#8217; And you will tell me, &#8216;Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.4.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he continued, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;no prophet is accepted in his hometown.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah&#8217;s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And there were many in Israel with leprosy</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:27 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word traditionally translated </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed&#8212;only Naaman the Syrian.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.4.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.4.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.4.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go away! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are&#8212;the Holy One of God!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.4.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be quiet!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said sternly. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come out of him!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Then the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without injuring him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.4.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">All the people were amazed and said to each other, &#8220;What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals Many</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.4.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.4.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon&#8217;s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.4.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.4.39"></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.4.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.4.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, &#8220;You are the Son of God!&#8221; But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.4.41"></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.4.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.4.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">But he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.4.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 4</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 4:1-8 is numbered 4:2-9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Answer me when I call to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"><span class="content">my righteous God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"><span class="content">Give me relief from my distress;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"><span class="content">have mercy on me and hear my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How long will you people turn my glory into shame?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.4.2"><span class="content">How long will you love delusions and seek false gods</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seek lies</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 4.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.4.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has set apart his faithful servant for himself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.4.3"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> hears when I call to him.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.4.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.4.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Tremble and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">In your anger </span><span class="ft">(see Septuagint)</span></span></span><span class="content"> do not sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.4.4"><span class="content">when you are on your beds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.4.4"><span class="content">search your hearts and be silent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.4.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Offer the sacrifices of the righteous</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.4.5"><span class="content">and trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.4.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.4.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are asking, &#8220;Who will bring us prosperity?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.4.6"><span class="content">Let the light of your face shine on us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.4.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Fill my heart with joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.4.7"><span class="content">when their grain and new wine abound.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.4.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.4.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In peace I will lie down and sleep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.4.8"><span class="content">for you alone, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.4.8"><span class="content">make me dwell in safety.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Create in me a pure heart, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="content">and renew a steadfast spirit within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not cast me from your presence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="content">or take your Holy Spirit from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Restore to me the joy of your salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="content">and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"></span></div>
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