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Luke 4 - NIV, NAB - in Clementine Homily VIII

For He pledged Himself with those that are His, to the effect that it is not lawful henceforth even to touch the things that are given over to him. Therefore He answered and said, `Thou shall fear the Lord thy God, and Him only shall thou serve.'[21]

Luke 4:1 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Fasting

By and by the Lord Himself consecrated His own baptism (and, in His own, that of all) by fasts;[59]

Luke 4:1 - NIV, NAB - in Martyrdom of the Holy and Glorious Apostle Bartholomew

Then the Son of God having been born of the virgin, and having become perfect man, and having been baptized, and after His baptism having fasted forty days, the tempter came and said to Him: If thou art the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves. And He answered: Not on bread alone shall man live, but by every word of God.[8]

Luke 4:3 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

And the devil looking at Him, and tempting Him, said: "If Thou art the Son of God; "[66]

Luke 4:3 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Fasting

having (the power) to make "loaves out of stones,"[60]

Luke 4:4 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Fasting

teaching man not to be studious of the stomach.[38]

Luke 4:6 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians

Yea, thou even darest, most accursed one, to appropriate the works of God to thyself, and to declare that the dominion over these was delivered to thee.[52]

Luke 4:6 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

He then, having been thus signally defeated, and then, as it were, concentrating his forces, drawing up in order all his available power for falsehood, in the third place "showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,"[189]

Luke 4:6 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

If then he be a liar and the truth be not in him, he certainly did not speak truth, but a lie, when he said, "For all these things are delivered to me, and to whomsoever I will I give them."[199]

Luke 4:6 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

As therefore the devil lied at the beginning, so did he also in the end, when he said, "All these are delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give them."[206]

Luke 4:8 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Prayer

He Himself, when tempted by the devil, demonstrated who it is that presides over and is the originator of temptation.[61]

Luke 4:8 - NIV, NAB - in Recognitions of Clement IV

Therefore our Lord, confirming the worship of one God, answered him: `It is written, Thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.'[28]

Luke 4:8 - NIV, NAB - in Clementine Homily X

"Therefore you shall be able to persuade yourselves with respect to the things that are profitable, if, like charmers, you say to the horrible serpent which lurks in your heart, `The Lord God thou shall fear, and Him alone thou shall serve.'[2]

Luke 4:14 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

of my family, for a light of Gentiles, that Thou mayst open the eyes of the blind"-of course, such as err-"to outloose from bonds the bound"-that is, to free them from sins-"and from the house of prison"-that is, of death-"such as sit in darkness"[256]

Luke 4:16 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

But to Christ the title Nazarene was destined to become a suitable one, from the hiding-place of His infancy, for which He went down and dwelt at Nazareth,[201]

Luke 4:18 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

[For this reason, ] those who knew not the Scriptures nor the promise of God, nor the dispensation of Christ, at last called him the father of the child. For this reason, too, did the Lord Himself read at Capernaum the prophecies of Isaiah:[336]

Luke 4:18 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Praxeas

Hear now also the Son's utterances respecting the Father: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel unto men."[117]

Luke 4:18 - NIV, NAB - in Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments

" And the Most Holy is none else but the Son of God alone, who, when He came and manifested Himself, said to them, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me; "[172]

Luke 4:18 - NIV, NAB - in Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle

, indeed, they shall return many fold, desiring to be set free from that most bitter captivity of the devil, especially remembering Him who said: "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised; to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of recompense unto our God."[6]

Luke 4:18 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on John Book I

who "makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust," He does not despise those who are poor in soul. To them He preaches good tidings, as He Himself bears witness to us when He takes Isaiah[58]

Luke 4:20 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

O Christ, even in Thy novelties Thou art old! Accordingly, when Peter, who had been an eye-witness of the miracle, and had compared it with the ancient precedents, and had discovered in them prophetic intimations of what should one day come to pass, answered (as the mouthpiece of them all) the Lord's inquiry, "Whom say ye that I am? "[793]

Luke 4:22 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

I wait to hear what you understand thereby; for fear you may perhaps think some carpenter-king[220]

Luke 4:23 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

But Christ will be (the Christ) of the prophets, wheresoever He is found in accordance with the prophets. And yet even at Nazareth He is not remarked as having preached anything new,[203]

Luke 4:24 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

by reason of a simple proverb.[205]

Luke 4:24 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II

And if a presbyter comes from another parish, let him be received to communion by the presbyters; if a deacon, by the deacons; if a bishop, let him sit with the bishop, and be allowed the same honour with himself; and thou, O bishop, shalt desire him to speak to the people words of instruction: for the exhortation and admonition of strangers is very acceptable, and exceeding profitable. For, as the Scripture says, "no prophet is accepted in his own country."[257]

Luke 4:27 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

with axes on the bank of the river Jordan, the iron flew off and sank in the stream; and so, on Elisha[290]

Luke 4:27 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

to the exclusion of[244]

Luke 4:27 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

so many lepers in Israel,[245]

Luke 4:27 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

Now, although He said in a preceding chapter,[1393]

Luke 4:29 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

He is said to have been rejected[204]

Luke 4:32 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

But "they were all astonished at His doctrine." Of course they were; "for, says (St. Luke), "His word was with power[177]

Luke 4:32 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

astonished at His doctrine; for He was teaching as one who had power."[427]

Luke 4:33 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

In the same passage, "the spirit of an unclean devil" exclaims: "What have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus? Art Thou come to destroy us? I know Thee who Thou art, the Holy One of God."[181]

Luke 4:34 - NIV, NAB - in Syriac Second Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians

Henceforward all things were moved together, and the destruction of death was devised, and there was the commencement of that which was perfected in God.[14]

Luke 4:34 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

and, according to the record which is common to both (Marcionites and ourselves) the evil spirit knew that Jesus was the Holy One of God, and that Jesus was His name, and that He was come to destroy them.[253]

Luke 4:34 - NIV, NAB - in Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

But supposing that, as you say, Peter was pronounced blessed on the ground of his having said what was true, and that that messenger was reproved on account of the error he committed, tell me then why it is, that when the devils confessed Him, and said, "We know Thee, who Thou art, the holy God,"[591]

Luke 4:40 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

In short, He did himself touch others, upon whom He laid His hands, which were capable of being felt, and conferred the blessings of healing,[210]

Luke 4:40 - NIV, NAB - in Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies

not agreeing with Cerinthus in every point; in that he affirms the world[49]

Luke 4:40 - NIV, NAB - in Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies

lord, "[50]

Luke 4:41 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

Accordingly, wicked spirits (just in the manner of our former example) used to go forth with a testimony, exclaiming, "Thou art the Son of God,"[213]

Luke 4:42 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

-of prevarication, when he permitted himself to be feared by the demons as the Son of the Creator, that he might drive them out, not indeed by his own power, but by the authority of the Creator. "He departed, and went into a desert place."[225]

Luke 4:42 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

When "stayed" by the crowds, He said," I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also."[230]

Luke 4:56 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Epistle LVIII

For as the Lord says in His Gospel, "The Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them,"[5]

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