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1 Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
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And Jesus full of the Holy Ghost turned again from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into desert
2 where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry.
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forty days, and was tempted of the devil, and [he] ate nothing in those days; and when those days were ended, he hungered.
3 Then the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread.”
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And the devil said to him, If thou art God's Son [If thou be God's Son], say to this stone, that it be made bread.
4 But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone.’ ”
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And Jesus answered to him, It is written, That a man liveth not in bread alone, but in every word of God.
5 Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
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And the devil led him into an high hill, and showed to him all the realms of the world in a moment of time;
6 “I will give you the glory of these kingdoms and authority over them,” the devil said, “because they are mine to give to anyone I please.
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and said to him, I shall give to thee all this power, and the glory of them, for to me they be given, and to whom I will, I give them;
7 I will give it all to you if you will worship me.”
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therefore if thou fall down, and worship before me [therefore if thou shalt worship before me], all things shall be thine.
8 Jesus replied, “The Scriptures say, ‘You must worship the your God and serve only him.’ ”
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And Jesus answered, and said to him, It is written, Thou shalt worship thy Lord God [Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God], and to him alone thou shalt serve.
9 Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off!
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And he led him into Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If thou art God's Son, send thyself from hence down;
10 For the Scriptures say, ‘He will order his angels to protect and guard you.
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for it is written, For he hath commanded to his angels of thee, that they keep thee in all thy ways,
11 And they will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.’ ”
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and that they shall take thee in hands, lest peradventure thou hurt thy foot at a stone. [and for in hands they shall take thee, lest peradventure thou hurt thy foot on a stone.]
12 Jesus responded, “The Scriptures also say, ‘You must not test the your God.’ ”
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And Jesus answered, and said to him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt thy Lord God. [And Jesus answering saith to him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.]
13 When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left him until the next opportunity came.
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And when every temptation was ended, the fiend went away from him [the devil went away from him] for a time.
14 Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit’s power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region.
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And Jesus turned again in the virtue of the Spirit into Galilee, and the fame went forth of him through all the country.
15 He taught regularly in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.
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And he taught in the synagogues of them, and was magnified of all men.
16 When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures.
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And he came to Nazareth, where he was nourished, and he entered after his custom in the sabbath day into a synagogue [into the synagogue], and rose to read.
17 The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written:
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And the book of Esaias, the prophet, was taken to him; and as he turned the book, he found a place, where it was written,
18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free,
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The Spirit of the Lord is on me, for which thing he anointed me; he sent me to preach to poor men, to heal contrite men in heart, and to preach remission to prisoners, and sight to blind men [+he sent me to evangelize to poor men, to heal contrite men in heart, and to preach remission to captives, and sight to blind], and to deliver broken men into remission;
19 and that the time of the LORD’s favor has come. ”
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to preach the year of the Lord pleasant, and the day of yielding again [to preach the year of the Lord accepted, or pleasant, and the day of retribution, or yielding again.]
20 He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently.
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And when he had closed the book, he gave [it] again to the minister, and sat; and the eyes of all men in the synagogue were beholding into him.
21 Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”
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And he began to say to them, For in this day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.
22 Everyone spoke well of him and was amazed by the gracious words that came from his lips. “How can this be?” they asked. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
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And all men gave witnessing to him, and wondered in the words of grace, that came forth of his mouth [that came out of his mouth]. And they said, Whether this is not the son of Joseph?
23 Then he said, “You will undoubtedly quote me this proverb: ‘Physician, heal yourself’—meaning, ‘Do miracles here in your hometown like those you did in Capernaum.’
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And he said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Physician, heal thyself. The Pharisees said to Jesus, How great things have we heard done in Capernaum, do thou also here in thy country. [And he said to them, Soothly ye shall say to me this likeness, Leech, heal thyself. How great things have we heard done in Capernaum, make thou and here in thy country.]
24 But I tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in his own hometown.
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And he said, Truly I say to you, that no prophet is received in his own country. [Soothly he saith, Truly I say to you, for no man prophet is accepted, or received, in his own country.]
25 “Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land.
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In truth I say to you, that many widows were in the days of Elias, the prophet, in Israel, when heaven was closed three years and six months, when great hunger was made in all the earth [when great hunger was made on all earth, or every land];
26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner—a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
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and to none of them was Elias sent, but into Sarepta of Sidon, to a woman a widow.
27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.”
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And many mesels were in Israel, under Eliseus, the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, but Naaman of Syria.
28 When they heard this, the people in the synagogue were furious.
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And all in the synagogue hearing these things, were filled with wrath.
29 Jumping up, they mobbed him and forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended to push him over the cliff,
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And they rose up, and drove him out [and cast him out] without the city, and led him to the top of the hill on which their city was builded, to cast him down [that they should cast him down].
30 but he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.
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But Jesus passed, and went through the middle of them; [Soothly Jesus passing went through the middle of them;]
31 Then Jesus went to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and taught there in the synagogue every Sabbath day.
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and he came down into Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and there he taught them in [the] sabbaths.
32 There, too, the people were amazed at his teaching, for he spoke with authority.
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And they were astonished in his teaching, for his word was in power.
33 Once when he was in the synagogue, a man possessed by a demon—an evil spirit—began shouting at Jesus,
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And in their synagogue was a man having an unclean fiend, and he cried with great voice, [And in the synagogue was a man having an unclean fiend, and cried with great voice,]
34 “Go away! Why are you interfering with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”
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and said [saying], Suffer, what to us and to thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us [to lose us]? I know thee, that thou art the holy of God.
35 Jesus cut him short. “Be quiet! Come out of the man,” he ordered. At that, the demon threw the man to the floor as the crowd watched; then it came out of him without hurting him further.
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And Jesus blamed him, and said [saying], Wax dumb, and go out from him. And when the fiend had cast him forth into the middle, he went away from him, and he harmed him nothing.
36 Amazed, the people exclaimed, “What authority and power this man’s words possess! Even evil spirits obey him, and they flee at his command!”
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And dread was made in all men, and they spake together, and said [saying], What is this word, for in power and virtue he commandeth to unclean spirits, and they go out?
37 The news about Jesus spread through every village in the entire region.
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And the fame was published of him into each place of the country.
38 After leaving the synagogue that day, Jesus went to Simon’s home, where he found Simon’s mother-in-law very sick with a high fever. “Please heal her,” everyone begged.
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And Jesus rose up from the synagogue, and entered into the house of Simon [Forsooth Jesus rising of the synagogue, entered into the house of Simon]; and the mother of Simon's wife was holden with a great fevers, and they prayed him for her.
39 Standing at her bedside, he rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once and prepared a meal for them.
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And Jesus stood over her, and commanded to the fever, and it left her; and at once she rose up, and served them [and anon she rising ministered to them].
40 As the sun went down that evening, people throughout the village brought sick family members to Jesus. No matter what their diseases were, the touch of his hand healed every one.
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And when the sun went down, all that had sick men with diverse languors, led them to him; and he set his hands on each by themselves, and healed them. [Forsooth when the sun went down, all that had sick men with diverse languishings, or aches, led them to him; and he, putting hands to each by himself, healed them.]
41 Many were possessed by demons; and the demons came out at his command, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But because they knew he was the Messiah, he rebuked them and refused to let them speak.
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And fiends went out from many, and cried, and said [crying, and saying], For thou art the Son of God. And he blamed, and suffered them not to speak [And he blaming suffered not them to speak], for they knew him, that he was Christ.
42 Early the next morning Jesus went out to an isolated place. The crowds searched everywhere for him, and when they finally found him, they begged him not to leave them.
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And when the day was come, he went out, and went into a desert place; and the people sought him, and they came to him [and they came unto him], and they held him, that he should not go away from them.
43 But he replied, “I must preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God in other towns, too, because that is why I was sent.”
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To whom he said, For also to other cities it behooveth me to preach the kingdom of God, for therefore I am sent [for thereto I am sent].
44 So he continued to travel around, preaching in synagogues throughout Judea.
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And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.