Lucas 4

BLIVRE · Chapter 4/24

1E Jesus, cheio do Espírito Santo, voltou do Jordão, e foi levado pelo Espírito ao deserto.

2E por quarenta dias foi tentado pelo diabo; e não comeu coisa alguma naqueles dias; e terminados eles, depois teve fome.

3Então o diabo lhe disse: Se tu és Filho de Deus, diz a esta pedra que se transforme em pão.

4Jesus lhe respondeu: Está escrito que não só de pão viverá o ser humano, mas de toda palavra de Deus.

5E o diabo o levou a um alto monte, e lhe mostrou todos os reinos do mundo num instante.

6E o diabo lhe disse: Darei a ti todo este poder e sua glória; pois a mim foram entregues, e os dou a quem quero.

7Portanto, se tu me adorares, tudo será teu.

8E Jesus lhe respondeu: Para trás de mim, Satanás!Porque está escrito: Adorarás ao Senhor teu Deus, e só a ele servirás.

9Então o levou a Jerusalém, e o pôs sobre a parte mais alta do templo, e disse-lhe: Se tu és o Filho de Deus, lança-te daqui abaixo.

10Porque está escrito que: Mandará aos seus acerca de ti que te guardem.

11E que: te sustentarão pelas mãos, para que nunca tropeces com o teu pé em alguma pedra.

12Jesus lhe respondeu: Dito está: Não tentes ao Senhor teu Deus.

13E quando o diabo acabou toda a tentação, ausentou-se dele por algum tempo.

14Então Jesus, no poder do Espírito, voltou para a Galileia, e sua fama se espalhou por toda a região ao redor.

15Ele ensinava em suas sinagogas, e era recebido com honra por todos.

16Ele foi a Nazaré, onde havia sido criado, e entrou, conforme o seu costume, num dia de Sábado, na sinagoga; e levantou-se para ler.

17Foi-lhe dado o livro do profeta Isaías; e quando abriu o livro, achou o lugar onde estava escrito:

18O Espírito do Senhor [está] sobre mim, porque ele me ungiu para evangelizar os pobres, me enviou para curar os contritos de coração;

19para proclamar liberdade aos cativos e dar vista aos cegos, para pôr em liberdade os oprimidos, para proclamar o ano agradável do Senhor.

20Ele fechou o livro, e devolveu-o ao assistente, e se sentou. Os olhos de todos na sinagoga estavam fixos nele.

21Então ele começou a lhes dizer: Hoje esta escritura se cumpriu em vossos ouvidos.

22E todos davam testemunho dele, e se admiravam das palavras graciosas que saíam da sua boca; e diziam: Não é este o filho de José?

23E ele lhes disse: Sem dúvida me direis este provérbio: Médico, cura a ti mesmo; faz também aqui na tua terra natal todas as coisas que ouvimos terem sido feitas em Cafarnaum.

24E disse: Em verdade vos digo que nenhum profeta é bem recebido na sua terra natal.

25Porém em verdade vos digo que hava muitas viúvas em Israel nos dias de Elias, quando o céu se fechou por três anos e seis meses, de modo que em toda [aquela] terra houve grande fome.

26Mas a nenhuma delas Elias foi enviado, a não ser a uma mulher viúva de Sarepta de Sidom.

27E havia muitos leprosos em Israel no tempo do profeta Eliseu; mas nenhum deles foi limpo, a não ser Naamã, o sírio.

28E todos na sinagoga, quando ouviram essas coisas, encheram-se de ira.

29Então se levantaram, expulsaram-no da cidade, e o levaram até o topo do monte em que sua cidade era construída, para dali o lançarem abaixo.

30Porém ele passou por meio deles, e se retirou.

31Ele desceu a Cafarnaum, cidade de Galileia; e [ali] os ensinava nos sábados.

32E admiravam o seu ensino, pois a sua palavra era com autoridade.

33E estava na sinagoga um homem que tinha um espírito de um demônio imundo, e gritou com alta voz,

34dizendo: Ah, que temos contigo, Jesus Nazareno? Vieste para nos destruir? Sei quem és: o Santo de Deus.

35E Jesus o repreendeu, dizendo: Cala-te, e, sai dele. E o demônio o derrubou no meio [do povo] , e saiu dele sem lhe fazer dano algum.

36E espanto veio sobre todos; e falavam entre si uns aos outros, dizendo: Que palavra é esta, que até aos espíritos imundos ele manda com autoridade e poder, e eles saem?

37E sua fama era divulgada em todos os lugares em redor daquela região.

38[Jesus] levantou-se da sinagoga, e entrou na casa de Simão. A sogra de Simão estava doente de uma grande febre, e rogaram-lhe por ela.

39Ele se inclinou a ela, e repreendeu a febre, que a deixou. Ela imediatamente se levantou e começou a lhes servir.

40Quando o sol estava se pondo, troxeram-lhe todos os que estavam enfermos de varias doenças. Ele punha as mãos sobre cada um deles e os curava.

41E também de muitos saíam demônios, gritando, e dizendo: Tu és o Cristo, o Filho de Deus. Ele os repreendia, e não os deixava falar, porque sabiam que ele era o Cristo.

42E sendo já dia, ele saiu, e foi a um lugar deserto. As multidões o buscavam; então vieram a ele, e queriam detê-lo, para que não os deixasse.

43Porém ele lhes disse: Também é necessário que eu anuncie a outras cidades o evangelho do Reino de Deus; pois para isso sou enviado.

44E ele pregava nas sinagogas da Galileia.

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Summary

Jesus is tempted by Satan in the wilderness for 40 days and overcomes by quoting Scripture. He begins preaching in Galilee, reads Isaiah's prophecy about himself in the synagogue at Nazareth, and is rejected by his own townspeople. He then heals a demon-possessed man and many sick people in Capernaum.

Explanation

The three temptations strike at core areas: physical need (bread), power and recognition (kingdoms), and testing God's protection (the temple). Jesus always responds by quoting Deuteronomy, showing that knowing the Word is a weapon against temptation. In the synagogue at Nazareth, he declares himself the fulfillment of Isaiah 61, but is rejected — illustrating that 'no prophet is accepted in his hometown.' The healings in Capernaum reveal his authority over disease and evil spirits. The practical lesson is that knowing Scripture well helps us resist everyday pressures and temptations.

Fun facts

  • The passage from Isaiah 61:1-2 that Jesus reads (v.18-19) was historically linked to messianic expectations of deliverance, and Jesus stops reading before the mention of the 'day of vengeance,' emphasizing grace over judgment in that first moment.
  • Capernaum, a town on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, became something of a home base for Jesus during his public ministry, confirmed by archaeological excavations of a synagogue from the Roman period.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Lucas 4:1Jesus comes straight from the baptism scene at the end of the previous chapter, full of the Holy Spirit, and it is the Spirit Himself who leads Him into the wilderness — the temptation is not a detour, it is part of the plan.
  2. Lucas 4:2Forty days is no random number: it echoes the forty years Israel spent in the wilderness and Moses’s forty days on the mountain without eating. Jesus repeats, in miniature, the same test of faith the people faced, only this time without giving in.
  3. Lucas 4:3All three temptations begin with “If thou be the Son of God” — the devil is not only questioning Jesus’s hunger, he is questioning His identity, trying to make Him prove who He is through a shortcut.
  4. Lucas 4:4Jesus answers by quoting Deuteronomy 8:3, a verse that originally spoke of the manna in the wilderness for the people of Israel — He faces the temptation using Israel’s own history and Scriptures.
  5. Lucas 4:5The vision of “all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time” is presented as something shown to Jesus, not an actual physical journey — the scope of power offered is deliberately exaggerated.
  6. Lucas 4:6The devil claims to have authority over this world’s power and glory and to be able to give them to whomever he wants — a claim of dominion that other New Testament texts also mention about him.
  7. Lucas 4:7The condition reveals the real aim of the temptation: it is not about possessions, it is about worship — trading loyalty to God for a shortcut to power.
  8. Lucas 4:8Jesus answers by quoting Deuteronomy 6:13, which commands worshiping the Lord alone — rejecting any shortcut to power that runs through idolatry.
  9. Lucas 4:9In the third temptation, the devil takes Jesus to the highest point of the temple in Jerusalem and dares Him to jump from there to prove He is the Son of God.
  10. Lucas 4:10This time it is the devil himself who quotes Scripture, using Psalm 91 out of its original context to try to justify a risky and unnecessary leap.
  11. Lucas 4:11The quotation continues with the promise that the angels would hold Him up — a general promise of protection being twisted to justify an artificial, reckless test.
  12. Lucas 4:12Jesus answers again with Deuteronomy, this time 6:16: one must not test God on purpose just to force a display of power.
  13. Lucas 4:13Luke makes clear that the devil withdraws only “for a season,” not forever — a warning that the confrontation will return later in the story, as it in fact does near Jesus’s arrest.
  14. Lucas 4:14Jesus returns to Galilee already with His fame spreading through the region — the text directly links the victory in the wilderness to the start of a public ministry full of power.
  15. Lucas 4:15Before the rejection in Nazareth, told right after, the text shows a well-received start to the ministry: Jesus teaches in the synagogues and is praised by everyone.
  16. Lucas 4:16Going to the synagogue every Sabbath was routine, and it was common for a man from the community to be invited to read a passage of Scripture and comment on it — there was no fixed clergy doing this alone. It is within this normal practice that Jesus asks for the scroll of Isaiah and delivers His first public sermon.
  17. Lucas 4:17Jesus is handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah, and He Himself finds the specific passage He will read — it was not unusual for a community member to be invited to read and comment on the Scriptures on the Sabbath.
  18. Lucas 4:18This quotation from Isaiah 61 works as a summary of Jesus’s mission: announcing good news to the poor, healing the brokenhearted, freeing captives — priorities that appear again and again throughout the rest of the gospel.
  19. Lucas 4:19This mention of the acceptable year of the Lord refers to the Year of Jubilee, which the law commanded be celebrated every fifty years: debts forgiven, slaves freed, land returned to the original families. By reading this passage from Isaiah and saying it was being fulfilled right then, Jesus is announcing that kind of general liberation, not just spiritual relief.
  20. Lucas 4:20Closing the book and handing it back to the attendant, then sitting down to speak, was the normal posture of someone about to comment on the passage read — except this time every eye stays fixed on Him, waiting for the comment.
  21. Lucas 4:21Jesus’s declaration is direct and bold: the ancient prophecy was fulfilled “this day,” right there in front of them — He is saying the text is about Him.
  22. Lucas 4:22The reaction is mixed: they marvel at His words, but also doubt, because they have known Jesus since He was a child as Joseph’s son — familiarity breeds suspicion, not faith.
  23. Lucas 4:23This was already a well-known saying at the time, something like solving your own problems before helping others. The people of Nazareth demand the same proof from Him: that He do there, in His own hometown, the miracles they had heard He did in Capernaum.
  24. Lucas 4:24Jesus applies to Himself a familiar saying about prophets not being well received in their own hometown, already foreseeing the rejection about to come from His own townspeople.
  25. Lucas 4:25The famine in Elijah’s days, with the sky shut for three and a half years, is a detail also cited in James 5:17, a Jewish tradition about the exact length of the drought, beyond what the text in Kings records directly.
  26. Lucas 4:26Elijah was sent specifically to a foreign widow, in Zarephath of Sidon, and not to any of the many widows of Israel — an example of God’s favor reaching people outside the chosen nation.
  27. Lucas 4:27Both the widow of Zarephath and Naaman were foreigners, not Israelites — and yet it was they, not the many needy Jews of the time, who received help through Elijah and Elisha. It is this reminder that God had already favored outsiders that leaves the synagogue crowd furious.
  28. Lucas 4:28Hearing these examples of foreigners receiving special favor from prophets strikes at the audience’s national pride, and the reaction turns into collective fury.
  29. Lucas 4:29The crowd drives Jesus out of the town and takes Him to the top of the hill Nazareth was built on, intending to throw Him off — a violent reaction that already foreshadows the hostility that will culminate in the crucifixion.
  30. Lucas 4:30Jesus simply walks through the middle of the crowd and goes on His way — the text does not explain how, it only records the fact that the attempt to kill Him failed.
  31. Lucas 4:31After being rejected in Nazareth, Jesus goes down to Capernaum, a town by the Sea of Galilee, which becomes His base for teaching on the Sabbath.
  32. Lucas 4:32What impresses the people is not just the content, but the manner of teaching: with direct authority, unlike the teachers of the time, who usually relied on the opinions of other rabbis.
  33. Lucas 4:33This is the first exorcism Luke narrates: a man in the synagogue itself, possessed by an unclean spirit, cries out in the middle of Jesus’s teaching.
  34. Lucas 4:34The demon recognizes Jesus as “the Holy One of God” — in the gospels, unclean spirits usually know exactly who Jesus is, even when the people around still do not understand.
  35. Lucas 4:35Jesus orders silence and commands the spirit to come out; the demon still throws the man to the ground, but leaves without causing any real harm — control of the situation rests entirely with Jesus.
  36. Lucas 4:36The crowd’s amazement centers on the authority of Jesus’s word: He performs no rituals and invokes no other names, He simply commands, and the spirits obey.
  37. Lucas 4:37News of this event spreads quickly through the whole region around Capernaum.
  38. Lucas 4:38Jesus enters Simon’s house, even before formally calling him as a disciple later on — Simon’s mother-in-law is in bed with a high fever, and they ask Jesus to do something for her.
  39. Lucas 4:39Jesus rebukes the fever as if it were something to be sent away, not just treated — and the healing is so complete that she gets up immediately and goes right back to serving.
  40. Lucas 4:40People wait for sunset to bring their sick because that marks the end of the Sabbath, when carrying someone or traveling distances no longer counted as forbidden work on the day of rest.
  41. Lucas 4:41The demons also cry out declaring that He is the Christ, but Jesus silences them — He does not want His identity announced by demonic sources, preferring to reveal it in His own time.
  42. Lucas 4:42Early in the morning, Jesus withdraws to a deserted place, but the crowds find Him and try to keep Him there, wanting to hold on to Him as if He belonged only to that town.
  43. Lucas 4:43Jesus explains that His mission cannot be confined to just one place: He was sent to announce the Kingdom of God to other towns as well.
  44. Lucas 4:44This verse sums up and closes this early phase: Jesus keeps preaching in synagogues throughout all of Galilee, not just in Capernaum or Nazareth.

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