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And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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And having finished all temptation, the devil departed from him for a season.
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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and his fame went out through all the region round about.
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And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
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And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day and stood up to read.
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And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
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The Spirit of the Lord
is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those that are broken,
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to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
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And he closed the book, and he gave
it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all those that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
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And he began to say unto them, Today this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.
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And all bore him witness and marvelled at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?