3 Then Satan said to him, “You are God's Son, aren't you? Then change this stone into damper.”
4 Jesus answered, “In God's book these words are written,
5 Then Satan took Jesus up on to a hill and quickly showed him all the countries where people were living. He showed Jesus everything from the east right over to the west. 6 Then he said, “I will give you all the wonderful things in all those countries, and I will make you rule over them all. Everything you can see belongs to me. I am the ruler, so if I want to I can give it to you or to anyone else. 7 If you worship me, then everything will be yours.”
8 Jesus answered, “Long ago Moses told God's people,
9 Then Satan took Jesus to the temple. The temple area was surrounded by a stone wall, and Satan took Jesus up on to the top. Then they looked down to the ground, and Satan said to Jesus, “You are God's Son, aren't you? Throw yourself down to the ground. 10 In God's book it is written,
12 Jesus answered Satan, “In God's book it is also written,
13 Satan kept on tempting Jesus, but at last he stopped, and left him for a while until another time.
20 Jesus finished reading and rolled up the paper scroll and gave it back to the servant who had given it to him and sat down to speak. All the people were looking at him. 21 Jesus said to them, “Today the words I have been reading from God's book have all come true as you have been listening to them.”
22 All the people who heard Jesus began talking about him. “He speaks very well,” they said, “but isn't he Joseph's son?”
23 Jesus said, “I know what you will say to me. You will use these old words, ‘You know how to heal people, so heal yourself.’ And you will also tell me to do the same things here in my own town as I did in Capernaum, because you have heard what I have been doing there. 24 But I tell you this, when a prophet speaks God's words to his own people in his own town, they will not listen to him.
25 “Listen to me and think about Elijah. He lived long ago in Israel. At that time there was no rain in his country. For three and a half years there was no rain. So there was no food and the people there were starving. Many widows lived there. 26 But God didn't send Elijah to any of the widows in his own country. He sent him to another country called Sidon. So he went there and helped a widow in a town called Zarephath.
27 “Now think about another prophet, Elisha, who also lived long ago in Israel. At that time many people in his country had bad sores all over them. Elisha didn't heal them, but he healed Naaman, who was from a different country called Syria. So just think about those two prophets.”
28 When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were filled with anger. 29 They got up and grabbed Jesus and put him out of the synagogue. They took him away from the houses to throw him down from the top of the hill. 30 But Jesus walked through the middle of the crowd and left them.
33 In Capernaum there lived a man who had an evil spirit. He also went to the synagogue, and he screamed out in a loud voice, 34 “Hey! Leave me alone! Why have you come to us, Jesus of Nazareth? You have come here to kill us, haven't you! I know who you are. You are the one God has sent here!”
35 “Be quiet!” said Jesus. “Come out of the man at once!” And the spirit threw the man down among the people without hurting him and came out of him.
36 All the people in the synagogue were very surprised. “What kind of words are these?” they said to each other. “This man speaks strong words, doesn't he? He rules over the spirits like a great ruler, and they come out.”
37 The people went home and talked to each other about Jesus and told other people about him, until many people in the different places near Capernaum had heard what Jesus had done and talked about him too.
40 Then the sun went down, and many people came to Jesus bringing their sick friends with them. They had all kinds of sicknesses. Jesus stretched out his hand and touched them one by one and healed them all.
41 Many of the people had evil spirits, but the spirits came out of them and left them, screaming, “You are the Son of God!” And Jesus spoke strong words to the evil spirits and made them be quiet, because they knew that he was the Messiah, the one God had sent into the world.
43 But Jesus said to them, “I must go to other places to tell people the good news there too. I must tell them about God ruling over people, because God has sent me here to tell people everywhere about him ruling.”
44 So Jesus left them and went around from place to place. He went to the synagogues and preached God's word to the people.
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