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Luke 4:11Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 4:1-11Acts 10:38Mark 1:12-13Luke 4:18Isa 61:1John 3:34Matt 3:16John 1:32Ezek 3:14Luke 4:14
Luke 4:22where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 34:28Heb 4:151 Kgs 19:8Deut 9:9Heb 2:18Deut 9:18John 4:6Matt 4:21 Sam 17:16Deut 9:25
Luke 4:33The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 4:3Luke 3:22
Luke 4:44Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 8:3Matt 4:4Eph 6:17Matt 6:31Exod 23:25Luke 4:10Luke 4:8Matt 6:25-26John 10:34-35Jer 49:11
Luke 4:55Then the devil led him up to a high place and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:15-161 Cor 15:52Job 20:5Matt 4:8Ps 73:192 Cor 4:17Eph 2:2Eph 6:12Mark 4:8-9Matt 24:14
Luke 4:66And he said to him, “To you I will grant this whole realm —and the glory that goes along with it, for it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:311 John 5:19Eph 2:2John 14:30Rev 13:2Rev 13:7Rev 20:2-31 Pet 1:24Rev 12:92 Cor 11:14
Luke 4:77So then, if you will worship me, all this will be yours.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 8:28Isa 45:14Luke 17:16Matt 2:11Ps 72:11Rev 22:8Rev 5:8Isa 46:6Rev 4:10
Luke 4:88Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 6:13Deut 10:20Matt 4:10Ps 83:18Rev 19:10Rev 22:91 Sam 7:3Jas 4:7Luke 4:41 Pet 5:9
Luke 4:99Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the highest point of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 4:5-6Luke 4:3Matt 8:292 Chr 3:4Rom 1:4Job 2:6
Luke 4:1010for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 91:11-12Heb 1:142 Cor 11:14Luke 4:3
Luke 4:1111and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 91:12
Luke 4:1212Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 6:16Heb 3:8-91 Cor 10:9Matt 4:7Mal 3:15Ps 95:9Ps 106:14
Luke 4:1313So when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until a more opportune time.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 4:7Heb 4:15John 14:30Matt 4:11
Luke 4:1414Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and news about him spread throughout the surrounding countryside.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 10:37Matt 4:23-25Matt 4:12Luke 4:37Mark 1:28John 4:43Mark 1:14Matt 9:26
Luke 4:1515He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by all.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 4:23Matt 9:8Isa 55:5Luke 13:10Mark 1:27Mark 1:39Mark 1:45Matt 13:54Matt 9:35Luke 4:16
Luke 4:1616Now Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:14-16Acts 17:2Matt 2:23Mark 6:1-3Matt 13:54-55Luke 2:51John 18:20Luke 2:42Luke 2:39Luke 4:21
Luke 4:1717and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 61:1-3Acts 13:15Acts 7:42
Luke 4:1818“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 61:1Matt 11:5Ps 146:7-8Acts 10:38Luke 7:22Acts 26:18Isa 42:7John 12:461 Pet 2:9Isa 29:18-19
Luke 4:1919to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 61:2Isa 63:42 Cor 6:1Lev 25:50-54Lev 25:8-13Luke 19:42
Luke 4:2020Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 4:17John 8:2Luke 19:48Acts 13:14-16Acts 16:13Luke 5:3Matt 13:1-2Matt 26:55Matt 5:1-2Acts 3:12
Luke 4:2121Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 4:25-26Acts 3:18Matt 13:14Acts 2:16-18Luke 10:23-24Acts 2:29-33John 5:39
Luke 4:2222All were speaking well of him, and were amazed at the gracious words coming out of his mouth. They said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:54-56Ps 45:2Acts 6:10John 6:42Eccl 12:10-11John 7:46Mark 6:2-3Isa 50:4Luke 21:15Prov 10:32
Luke 4:2323Jesus said to them, “No doubt you will quote to me the proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ and say, ‘What we have heard that you did in Capernaum, do here in your hometown too.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 4:46-53Matt 11:23-24Mark 2:1-12John 2:3-4Mark 6:1Matt 4:13Rom 2:21-22
Luke 4:2424And he added, “I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:57John 4:44Mark 6:4-5Acts 22:3Acts 22:18-22
Luke 4:2525But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:1Jas 5:17Isa 55:8Matt 20:151 Kgs 18:1-2Luke 10:21Mark 7:26-29Rom 9:15Eph 1:11Eph 1:9
Luke 4:2626Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:9-24Matt 11:21
Luke 4:2727And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:1-27John 17:121 Kgs 19:19-21Matt 12:4
Luke 4:2828When they heard this, all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 24:20-21Acts 22:21-23Acts 5:33Acts 7:54Jer 37:15-16Jer 38:6Luke 11:53-54Luke 6:111 Thess 2:15-162 Chr 16:10
Luke 4:2929They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 8:59Acts 16:23-24Acts 21:28-32Acts 7:57-58Heb 13:12John 15:24-25John 8:37John 8:40Num 15:35Ps 37:14
Luke 4:3030But he passed through the crowd and went on his way.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 10:39John 8:59John 18:6-7Acts 12:18
Luke 4:3131So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 1:21-28Matt 4:13Acts 13:50-14:2Acts 14:19-21Acts 14:6-7Acts 17:1-3Matt 10:23Acts 17:10-11Acts 17:16-17Acts 18:4
Luke 4:3232They were amazed at his teaching, because he spoke with authority.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 4:36Matt 7:28-292 Cor 10:4-5Heb 4:12-13John 6:63Titus 2:151 Thess 1:51 Cor 14:24-25Mark 1:221 Cor 2:4-5
Luke 4:3333Now in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 1:23
Luke 4:3434“Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 1:24Jas 2:19Matt 8:29Acts 3:14Luke 1:35Gen 3:15Luke 4:41Rev 3:7Acts 16:39Acts 2:27
Luke 4:3535But Jesus rebuked him: “Silence! Come out of him!” Then, after the demon threw the man down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 4:41Luke 4:39Matt 8:26Acts 16:17-18Luke 11:22Luke 8:24Luke 9:39Luke 9:42Mark 3:11-12Mark 9:26
Luke 4:3636They were all amazed and began to say to one another, “What’s happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 4:321 Pet 3:22Acts 19:12-16Luke 10:17-20Mark 1:27Mark 16:17-20Mark 7:37Matt 12:22-23Matt 9:33
Luke 4:3737So the news about him spread into all areas of the region.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 4:14Mark 1:45Isa 52:13Mark 6:14Matt 4:23-25Matt 9:26
Luke 4:3838After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 8:14-15Mark 1:29-31Jas 5:14-15John 11:221 Cor 9:5John 11:3Luke 7:3-4Matt 15:23
Luke 4:3939So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 4:41Luke 4:35Luke 8:24Luke 8:2-32 Cor 5:14-15Ps 116:12
Luke 4:4040As the sun was setting, all those who had any relatives sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus. He placed his hands on every one of them and healed them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 1:32-34Matt 8:16-17Mark 5:23Mark 3:10Acts 19:12Acts 5:15Luke 7:21-23Matt 11:5Matt 14:13Matt 4:23-24
Luke 4:4141Demons also came out of many, crying out, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 1:34Jas 2:19Acts 16:17-18Luke 4:34-35John 20:31Mark 3:11Matt 4:3Matt 26:63Mark 1:25Matt 8:29
Luke 4:4242The next morning Jesus departed and went to a deserted place. Yet the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 6:12Mark 1:35-38John 4:34John 6:24Luke 24:29Luke 8:37-38Mark 6:33-34John 4:40Mark 1:45Matt 14:13-14
Luke 4:4343But Jesus said to them, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, for that is what I was sent to do.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 1:38-392 Tim 4:2John 6:38-40Acts 10:38John 20:21John 9:4Isa 42:1-4Isa 61:1-3Mark 1:14-15Isa 48:16
Luke 4:4444So he continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 4:23Mark 1:39Luke 4:15
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