the Fourth Week of Advent
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Luke 4
1 Yeshua, full of the Ruach HaKodesh, returned from the Yarden, 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 Yeshua 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 Yeshua answered him, "Get behind me Hasatan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.'" 9 He led him to Yerushalayim, 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 give his angels charge concerning you, to guard you;' 11 and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, Lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.'" 12 Yeshua 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 Yeshua returned in the power of the Spirit to the Galil, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area. 15 He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. 16 He came to Natzeret, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the day of Shabbat, and stood up to read. 17 The book of the prophet Yesha`yahu 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 anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, 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 words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Yosef's son?" 23 He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Kafar-Nachum, do also here in your hometown.'" 24 He said, "Most assuredly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Yisra'el in the days of Eliyah, when the the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. 26 Eliyah was sent to none of them, except only to Tzarfat, in the land of Tzidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 There were many lepers in Yisra'el in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Na`aman, the Arammian." 28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things; 29 and they rose up, and 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 midst of them, went his way.
31 He came down to Kafar-Nachum, a city of the Galil. He was teaching them on the day of Shabbat, 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, Yeshua of Natzeret? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!" 35 Yeshua rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, 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 Shim`on's house. Shim`on's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for 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 from many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Messiah, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Messiah. 42 When it was day, he came out 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 the kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent." 44 He was preaching in the synagogues of the Galil.
