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Today’s Reading: Luke 4
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Jesus spends forty days in the wilderness being tempted by Satan. In what seems to be Jesus first return to Nazareth in about a year, His townsmen reject Him.

v1-13 Forty days temptation

v14-15 Jesus begins the Galilean ministry

v16-30 Rejected at Nazareth

v31-37 Demoniac healed

v38-39 Peter’s mother-in-law

v40-41 Multitudes healed

v42 Prayer

v43-44 Journeying about

Review/Study Time
Below are some questions to provoke thought about your reading. Use the comments area to add your own thoughts or questions about today’s text.

1. How can the passage about the temptation be used to demonstrate the cliché “Even the Devil knows Scripture”?
2. Why did Jesus townsmen reject His teaching?
3. What is the significance of mentioning that Peter’s mother-in-law ministered to them after being healed?

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