Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St Luke 4:7-24 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

7. If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be thine.

8. And Jesus answering said to him: It is written: Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

9. And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and he said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from hence.

10. For it is written, that He hath given his angels charge over thee, that they keep thee.

11. And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.

12. And Jesus answering, said to him: It is said: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

13. And all the temptation being ended, the devil departed from him for a time.

14. And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit, into Galilee, and the fame of him went out through the whole country.

15. And he taught in their synagogues, and was magnified by all.

16. And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and he went into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath day; and he rose up to read.

17. And the book of Isaias the prophet was delivered unto him. And as he unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written:

18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,

19. To preach deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of reward.

20. And when he had folded the book, he restored it to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

21. And he began to say to them: This day is fulfilled this scripture in your ears.

22. And all gave testimony to him: and they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth, and they said: Is not this the son of Joseph?

23. And he said to them: Doubtless you will say to me this similitude: Physician, heal thyself: as great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country.

24. And he said: Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country.