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Luke 4:38 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He rose up from the synagogue and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him to help her. "
Luke 4:38
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36 Amazement came on all and they spoke together, one with another, saying, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
37 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
38 He rose up from the synagogue and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him to help her.
39 He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
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Luke 4:1
"Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness"
Luke 4:2
"for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry."
Luke 4:3
"The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”"
Luke 4:4
"Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”"
Luke 4:5
"The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time."
Luke 4:6
"The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I want."
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