King James Version · Under Rome
Luke 4
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And being full of the Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by into , Being forty days of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of , command this stone that it be made bread. And answered him, saying, , That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of . And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this will I give thee, and the of them: for that is unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt me, all shall be thine. And answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, : for , Thou shalt thy , and him only shalt thou . And he brought him to , and set him on a pinnacle of , and said unto him, If thou be the Son of , cast thyself down from hence: For , He shall give his charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. And answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not thy . And when the devil had ended all the , he departed from him for a season. And returned in the of into : and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught in their , being glorified of all. And he came to , where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the on the , and stood up for to read. And there was unto him the book of the . And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, of is upon me, because he hath me to preach to ; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach to the , and recovering of sight to the blind, to them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of . 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 were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this fulfilled in your ears. And all him , and wondered at the words which proceeded out of his . And they said, Is not this ’s son? And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this , Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in , do also here in thy country. And he said, Verily I say unto you, No is accepted in his own country. But I tell you of a truth, many were in Israel in the days of , when the was shut up three years and six months, when great was throughout all the land; But unto none of them was sent, unto Sarepta, a city of , unto a woman that was a . And many were in Israel in the time of the ; and none of them was cleansed, saving the . And all they in the , when they heard these things, were filled with , 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. But he passing through the midst of them went his way, And came down to , a city of , and taught them on the days. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with . And in the there was a man, which had a of an devil, and cried out with a loud voice, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou of ? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the One of . And 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. And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with and he commandeth the , and they come out. And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about. And he arose out of the , and entered into ’s house. And ’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them. Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he on every one of them, and healed them. And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art the Son of . And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was . And when it was day, he departed and went into a place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them. And he said unto them, I must preach of to other cities also: for therefore am I sent. And he preached in the of .
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · Under Rome, 63 BC to AD 100 ›
Judea as a client kingdom and then a province. Roads, garrisons, taxes, crucifixion, and a common Greek language that let a message travel the empire faster than any before it.
- Rome
- The republic tears itself apart in civil war and comes out as an empire under Augustus. What follows is two centuries of relative peace across the whole Mediterranean, enforced by legions and paid for by taxes, with safe roads and safe sea lanes. Every one of Paul's journeys depends on that.
- Judea
- Governed first through Herod the Great, a client king of enormous ability and enormous brutality who rebuilds the temple into one of the wonders of the ancient world, then directly by Roman prefects. Crucifixion is the standard penalty for sedition and is used often and publicly.
- The wider world
- Greek is spoken from Spain to Syria, which means a letter written in Corinth can be read in Rome without translation. Jewish communities already exist in most major cities, which is where the first Christian preaching lands. Mystery religions, imperial cult, and philosophy all compete in the same marketplace.
- Further afield
- The Han dynasty rules China and trades silk westward along routes that touch the Roman world at second hand. In Britain the Roman conquest begins within a decade of the crucifixion.