Lk 4:1-30

• v1 - Jesus let by the Spirit in the desert;
• Devil's temptations
1. If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread (v3)
   
2. I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. So if you worship me, it will all be yours (v6-7)
3. If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here... (v9-11)
• Jesus' replies:
1. It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone (Deut 8:3)' (v4)
2. It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only (Deut 6:13)' (v8)
3. It says: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test (Deut :16)' (v12)
• v14 - Jesus first returned to Nazareth, where he had been brought up (v16)
• but people there didn't respect him (v22);
• Jesus gave the example of:
• Elijah
• who went to the widow in Sidon but not in Israel
  
• Elisha
• who healed Syrian general Naaman, not none in Israel
• -> no prophet is accepted in his hometown (v24)
• the people were so furious that they wanted to throw him down the cliff (v29)
• but Jesus walked right through the crowd and left (v30)