The Life of Jesus

So if you will worship me, it will all be yours."

Yeshua answered him, "The Tanakh says, `Worship ADONAI your God and serve him only.'"

Then he took him to Yerushalayim, set him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, jump from here!

For the Tanakh says, `He will order his angels to be responsible for you and to protect you.

They will support you with their hands, so that you will not hurt your feet on the stones.'"

Yeshua answered him, "It also says, `Do not put ADONAI your God to the test.'"

When the Adversary had ended all his testings, he let him alone until an opportune time.

Yeshua returned to the Galil in the power of the Spirit, and reports about him spread throughout the countryside.

He taught in their synagogues, and everyone respected him.

Now when he went to Natzeret, where he had been brought up, on Shabbat he went to the synagogue as usual. He stood up to read,

and he was given the scroll of the prophet Yesha`yahu. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written,

"The Spirit of ADONAI is upon me; therefore he has anointed me to announce Good News to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned and renewed sight for the blind, to release those who have been crushed,

to proclaim a year of the favor of ADONAI."

After closing the scroll and returning it to the shammash, he sat down; and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

He started to speak to them: "Today, as you heard it read, this passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled!"

Everyone was speaking well of him and marvelling that such appealing words were coming from his mouth. They were even asking, "Can this be Yosef's son?"

Then Yeshua said to them, "No doubt you will quote to me this proverb -- `"Doctor, cure yourself!" We've heard about all the things that have been going on over in K'far-Nachum; now do them here in your home town!'

Yes!" he said, "I tell you that no prophet is accepted in his home town.

It's true, I'm telling you -- when Eliyahu was in Isra'el, and the sky was sealed off for three-and-a-half years, so that all the Land suffered a severe famine, there were many widows;

but Eliyahu was sent to none of them, only to a widow in Tzarfat in the land of Tzidon.

Also there were many people with tzara`at in Isra'el during the time of the prophet Elisha; but not one of them was healed, only Na`aman the Syrian."

On hearing this, everyone in the synagogue was filled with fury.

They rose up, drove him out of town and dragged him to the edge of the cliff on which their town was built, intending to throw him off.

But he walked right through the middle of the crowd and went away.

He went down to K'far-Nachum, a town in the Galil, and made a practice of teaching them on Shabbat.