MODERN LITERAL VERSION

4:1 And full of the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
4:2 being tempted by the Devil for forty days. And he ate nothing in those days, and when they were finished, later he hungered.
4:3 And the Devil said to him, If you are the Son of God, speak to this stone that* it may become bread.

4:4 And Jesus answered to him, saying, It has been written, ‘Man will not live on bread only, but upon every declaration from God.' {Deut. 8:3}

4:5 And the Devil, leading him up into a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited-earth in an instant of time.
4:6 And the Devil said to him, I will give all this authority, and the glory of them, to you, because it has been given to me, and to whomever I wish it; I give it.
4:7 Therefore, if you worship before me, all this will be yours.

4:8 And Jesus answering, said to him, Go behind me, Adversary! It has been written, ‘You will worship the Lord your God and you will give-divine service to him only.' {Deut. 6:13}

4:9 And he led him to Jerusalem, and stood him upon the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself downward from here.
4:10 For* it has been written, ‘He will command his messengers concerning you, to guard you,'
4:11 and, ‘They will lift you up upon their hands, lest you might hit your foot against a stone.' {Ps. 91:11-12}

4:12 And Jesus answering, said to him, It is said, ‘You will not test the Lord your God.' {Deut. 6:16}

4:13 And when the Devil had finished every temptation, he withdrew from him till another time.
{Lk 4:14a & Jn 4:44-45 Arrival in Galilee.}

4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee.
{Mk 1:14b-15 & Mt 4:17 & Lk 4:14b-15.}
And fame went out throughout the whole region around there concerning him.
4:15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been reared up, and according to his custom, he entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.
4:17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. And having unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
4:18 ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, in that he anointed me to proclaim the good-news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the crushed in heart, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth the downtrodden with deliverance,
4:19 to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.' {Is. 61:1-2}
4:20 And having furled the scroll and giving it back to the attendant, he sat down, and the eyes of all were staring at him in the synagogue.
4:21 And he began to say to them, This Scripture has been fulfilled today in your* ears.

4:22 And all testified of him and marveled at the words of grace which came out from his mouth, and they said, Is this not Joseph's son?

4:23 And he said to them, You* will certainly say this parable to me, Physician, heal yourself. We have heard how much had happened in Capernaum, do it here also in your fatherland.
4:24 And he said, Assuredly I say to you*, No prophet is acceptable in his fatherland.
4:25 But in truth I say to you*, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was locked for three years and six months, when there became a large famine over all the land;
4:26 and Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
4:27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.

4:28 And they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things;
4:29 and they rose* up and cast him forth outside the city, and led him to the brow of the mountain on which their city was built, *that* they might propel him off the cliff.
4:30 But going through the middle of them, he traveled away.
{Mk 1:21-28 & Lk 4:31-37 Capernaum.}

4:31 And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath day;
4:32 and they were astounded at his teaching, because his word was with authority.
4:33 And a man was in the synagogue, who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
4:34 saying, Ah! What have we to do with you, Jesus you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you, who you are, the Holy One of God.

4:35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hush and come forth out of him. And when the demon had tossed him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.

4:36 And amazement came* upon all and they spoke to one another, saying, What is this word, because he commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out?
4:37 And there went forth a rumor concerning him, into every place of the region around.
{Mk 1:29-34 & Mt 8:14-17 & Lk 4:38-41 Capernaum.}

4:38 And he rose* up from the synagogue and entered into the house of Simon. And Simon's mother-in-law was held by a great fever, and they asked him concerning her.
4:39 And he stood above her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and instantly, she rose* up and served them.

4:40 And when the sun was setting, all things, as many as had anyone sick with various diseases led them toward him, and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
4:41 And demons also came out from many, crying out and saying, You are the Christ, the Son of God. And rebuking them, he did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
{Mk 1:35-39 & Mt 4:23-25 & Lk 4:42-44 Preaching through Galilee.}

4:42 And when it became day, he came out and went into a desolate place and the crowds sought after him and came to him and were holding-onto him, that* he might not go away from them.
4:43 But he said to them, It is essential for me to also proclaim the good-news of the kingdom of God to the other cities, because I have been sent to this end.

4:44 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
{Mk 1:16-20 & Mt 4:18-22 & Lk 5:1-11 Sea of Galilee near Capernaum.}