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Jesus answered,
“It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’ ”
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The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here.
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For it is written: “ ‘He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully;
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they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’ ”
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Jesus answered,
“It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”
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When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.
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He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.
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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,
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and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
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“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,