Daily Meditation
22 And all bare him
witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.
And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
Today’s Reading
The Gospel According
To
Luke
Chapter Four
This day is this
scripture fulfilled in your ears
1 And Jesus being
full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the
wilderness, 2 being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did
eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. 3 And the devil said
unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word of God.
5 And the devil,
taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the
world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I
give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to
whomsoever I will I give it. 7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be
thine. 8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for
it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
serve.
9 And he brought him
to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If
thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: 10 for it is written, He
shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: 11 and in their hands
they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord
thy God. 13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from
him for a season.
14 And Jesus
returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of
him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues,
being glorified of all.
16 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 for to read. 17 And there was
delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the
book, he found the place where it was written, 18 The Spirit of the Lord is
upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath
sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19
to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20 And he closed the book, and he
gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were
in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 And he began to
say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. 22 And all
bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his
mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son? 23 And he said unto them, Ye
will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we
have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. 24 And he said,
Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. 25 But I tell
you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the
heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout
all the land; 26 but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a
city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. 27 And many lepers were in Israel
in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving
Naaman the Syrian.
28 And all they in
the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 and
rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill
whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. 30 But he
passing through the midst of them went his way, 31 and came down to Capernaum,
a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days. 32 And they were
astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.
33 And in the
synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out
with a loud voice, 34 saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou
Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the
Holy One of God. 35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out
of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and
hurt him not. 36 And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying,
What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean
spirits, and they come out. 37 And the fame of him went out into every place of
the country round about.
38 And he arose out
of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was
taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. 39 And he stood over
her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and
ministered unto them.
40 Now when the sun
was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto
him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. 41 And devils
also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God.
And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was
Christ.
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