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# Luke 4

Luke 4 is chapter 4 of 24 in the Gospel of Luke. Here are all 44 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ's fasting and temptation. He is persecuted in Nazareth. His miracles in Capharnaum.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Luke 4 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. And he was urged by the Spirit into the wilderness
2. for forty days, and he was tested by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were completed, he was hungry.
3. Then the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, speak to this stone, so that it may be made into bread.”
4. And Jesus answered him, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”
5. And the devil led him onto a high mountain, and he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,
6. and he said to him: “To you, I will give all this power, and its glory. For they have been handed over to me, and I give them to whomever I wish.
7. Therefore, if you will worship before me, all will be yours.”
8. And in response, Jesus said to him: “It is written: ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him alone.’”
9. And he brought him to Jerusalem, and he set him on the parapet of the temple, and he said to him: “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here.
10. For it is written that he has given his Angels charge over you, so that they may guard you,
11. and so that they may take you into their hands, lest perhaps you may hurt your foot against a stone.”
12. And in response, Jesus said to him, “It is said: ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”
13. And when all the temptation was completed, the devil withdrew from him, until a time.
14. And Jesus returned, in the power of the Spirit, into Galilee. And his fame spread throughout the entire region.
15. And he taught in their synagogues, and he was magnified by everyone.
16. And he went to Nazareth, where he had been raised. And he entered into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the Sabbath day. And he rose up to read.
17. And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And as he unrolled the book, he found the place where it was written:
18. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart,
19. to preach forgiveness to captives and sight to the blind, to release the broken into forgiveness, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of retribution.”
20. And when he had rolled up the book, he returned it to the minister, and he sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.
21. Then he began to say to them, “On this day, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
22. And everyone gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said, “Is this not the son of Joseph?”
23. And he said to them: “Certainly, you will recite to me this saying, ‘Physician, heal yourself.’ The many great things that we have heard were done in Capernaum, do here also in your own country.”
24. Then he said: “Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country.
25. In truth, I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine had occurred throughout the entire land.
26. And to none of these was Elijah sent, except to Zarephath of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
27. And there were many lepers in Israel under the prophet Elisha. And none of these was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.”
28. And all those in the synagogue, upon hearing these things, were filled with anger.
29. And they rose up and drove him beyond the city. And they brought him all the way to the edge of the mount, upon which their city had been built, so that they might throw him down violently.
30. But passing through their midst, he went away.
31. And he descended to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And there he taught them on the Sabbaths.
32. And they were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was spoken with authority.
33. And in the synagogue, there was a man who had an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
34. saying: “Let us alone. What are we to you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God.”
35. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and depart from him.” And when the demon had thrown him into their midst, he departed from him, and he no longer harmed him.
36. And fear fell over them all. And they discussed this among themselves, saying: “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they depart.”
37. And his fame spread to every place in the region.
38. Then Jesus, rising up from the synagogue, entered into the house of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in the grip of a severe fever. And they petitioned him on her behalf.
39. And standing over her, he commanded the fever, and it left her. And promptly rising up, she ministered to them.
40. Then, when the sun had set, all those who had anyone afflicted with various diseases brought them to him. Then, laying his hands on each one of them, he cured them.
41. Now demons departed from many of them, crying out and saying, “You are the son of God.” And rebuking them, he would not permit them to speak. For they knew him to be the Christ.
42. Then, when it was daytime, going out, he went to a deserted place. And the crowds sought him, and they went all the way to him. And they detained him, so that he would not depart from them.
43. And he said to them, “I must also preach the kingdom of God to other cities, because it was for this reason that I was sent.”
44. And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

## Luke 4 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Jesus autem plenus Spiritu Sancto regressus est a Jordane: et agebatur a Spiritu in desertum
2. diebus quadraginta, et tentabatur a diabolo. Et nihil manducavit in diebus illis: et consummatis illis esuriit.
3. Dixit autem illi diabolus: Si Filius Dei es, dic lapidi huic ut panis fiat.
4. Et respondit ad illum Jesus: Scriptum est: Quia non in solo pane vivit homo, sed in omni verbo Dei.
5. Et duxit illum diabolus in montem excelsum, et ostendit illi omnia regna orbis terræ in momento temporis,
6. et ait illi: Tibi dabo potestatem hanc universam, et gloriam illorum: quia mihi tradita sunt, et cui volo do illa.
7. Tu ergo si adoraveris coram me, erunt tua omnia.
8. Et respondens Jesus, dixit illi: Scriptum est: Dominum Deum tuum adorabis, et illi soli servies.
9. Et duxit illum in Jerusalem, et statuit eum super pinnam templi, et dixit illi: Si Filius Dei es, mitte te hinc deorsum.
10. Scriptum est enim quod angelis suis mandavit de te, ut conservent te:
11. et quia in manibus tollent te, ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum.
12. Et respondens Jesus, ait illi: Dictum est: Non tentabis Dominum Deum tuum.
13. Et consummata omni tentatione, diabolus recessit ab illo, usque ad tempus.
14. Et regressus est Jesus in virtute Spiritus in Galilæam, et fama exiit per universam regionem de illo.
15. Et ipse docebat in synagogis eorum, et magnificabatur ab omnibus.
16. Et venit Nazareth, ubi erat nutritus, et intravit secundum consuetudinem suam die sabbati in synagogam, et surrexit legere.
17. Et traditus est illi liber Isaiæ prophetæ. Et ut revolvit librum, invenit locum ubi scriptum erat:
18. Spiritus Domini super me: propter quod unxit me, evangelizare pauperibus misit me, sanare contritos corde,
19. prædicare captivis remissionem, et cæcis visum, dimittere confractos in remissionem, prædicare annum Domini acceptum et diem retributionis.
20. Et cum plicuisset librum, reddit ministro, et sedit. Et omnium in synagoga oculi erant intendentes in eum.
21. Cœpit autem dicere ad illos: Quia hodie impleta est hæc scriptura in auribus vestris.
22. Et omnes testimonium illi dabant: et mirabantur in verbis gratiæ, quæ procedebant de ore ipsius, et dicebant: Nonne hic est filius Joseph?
23. Et ait illis: Utique dicetis mihi hanc similitudinem: Medice cura teipsum: quanta audivimus facta in Capharnaum, fac et hic in patria tua.
24. Ait autem: Amen dico vobis, quia nemo propheta acceptus est in patria sua.
25. In veritate dico vobis, multæ viduæ erant in diebus Eliæ in Israël, quando clausum est cælum annis tribus et mensibus sex, cum facta esset fames magna in omni terra:
26. et ad nullam illarum missus est Elias, nisi in Sarepta Sidoniæ, ad mulierem viduam.
27. Et multi leprosi erant in Israël sub Eliseo propheta: et nemo eorum mundatus est nisi Naaman Syrus.
28. Et repleti sunt omnes in synagoga ira, hæc audientes.
29. Et surrexerunt, et ejecerunt illum extra civitatem: et duxerunt illum usque ad supercilium montis, super quem civitas illorum erat ædificata, ut præcipitarent eum.
30. Ipse autem transiens per medium illorum, ibat.
31. Et descendit in Capharnaum civitatem Galilææ, ibique docebat illos sabbatis.
32. Et stupebant in doctrina ejus, quia in potestate erat sermo ipsius.
33. Et in synagoga erat homo habens dæmonium immundum, et exclamavit voce magna,
34. dicens: Sine, quid nobis et tibi, Jesu Nazarene? venisti perdere nos? scio te quis sis, Sanctus Dei.
35. Et increpavit illum Jesus, dicens: Obmutesce, et exi ab eo. Et cum projecisset illum dæmonium in medium, exiit ab illo, nihilque illum nocuit.
36. Et factus est pavor in omnibus, et colloquebantur ad invicem, dicentes: Quod est hoc verbum, quia in potestate et virtute imperat immundis spiritibus, et exeunt?
37. Et divulgabatur fama de illo in omnem locum regionis.
38. Surgens autem Jesus de synagoga, introivit in domum Simonis. Socrus autem Simonis tenebatur magnis febribus: et rogaverunt illum pro ea.
39. Et stans super illam imperavit febri: et dimisit illam. Et continuo surgens, ministrabat illis.
40. Cum autem sol occidisset, omnes qui habebant infirmos variis languoribus, ducebant illos ad eum. At ille singulis manus imponens, curabat eos.
41. Exibant autem dæmonia a multis clamantia, et dicentia: Quia tu es Filius Dei: et increpans non sinebat ea loqui: quia sciebant ipsum esse Christum.
42. Facta autem die egressus ibat in desertum locum, et turbæ requirebant eum, et venerunt usque ad ipsum: et detinebant illum ne discederet ab eis.
43. Quibus ille ait: Quia et aliis civitatibus oportet me evangelizare regnum Dei: quia ideo missus sum.
44. Et erat prædicans in synagogis Galilææ.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 695: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2855: The Final Doxology ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2096: "Him Only Shall You Serve" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2119: "You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 538: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 436: Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1286: Confirmation in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 544: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 714: God's Spirit and Word in the Time of the Promises ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2443: Love For the Poor ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1168: When is the Liturgy Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Jan 5, 2027: St. John Neumann, Bishop — Alleluia, Luke 4:18
- Thu, Jan 7, 2027: Thursday after Epiphany — Alleluia, Luke 4:18; Gospel, Luke 4:14-22
- Sat, Jan 16, 2027: Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, Luke 4:18
- Mon, Mar 1, 2027: Monday of the Third Week of Lent — Gospel, Luke 4:24-30

13 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).