Jesus Heals Many in this phase of Luke 4, Jesus heals Simon Peter’s mother-in-law and many others who are sick or possessed by demons. Early in the morning, He withdraws to a solitary place, but the crowds find Him and try to keep Him from leaving. Jesus, however, insists that He must proclaim the good news of God’s kingdom to other towns as well. During Jesus’ three and a half years of ministry on earth, He demonstrated the healing ministry in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. There are 23 different individual healings recorded in the four gospels. Jesus healed everyone from the ten lepers to the boy with a demonic spirit. No telling how many more Jesus healed not recorded, but the Lord knows.
Luke 4:38-44 EASY> Jesus then left the meeting place and he went to Simon’s home. The mother of Simon’s wife was ill and her body was very hot. So they asked Jesus to make her well. Jesus came and he stood near her. He told the illness to go away and immediately she was well again. She got up and she prepared food for her visitors. When the sun was going down, people in the town brought to Jesus all those people who were ill. They had many different kinds of illness. Jesus put his hands on each ill person and they became well again. Also, bad spirits came out of many people. They were shouting, ‘You are the Son of God.’ The spirits knew that Jesus was the Messiah. Because of this, Jesus stopped them. He would not let them speak. Early the next morning, Jesus went to a place where he could be alone. The people went to look for him. When they found him they said, ‘Do not leave us! Please stay here with us.’ Jesus replied, ‘I must go to other towns to tell everyone the good news. I will tell them how God rules in the lives of his people. That is what God sent me to do.’ Then he travelled to many towns in the country called Judea. He went into the Jewish meeting places and taught people there.

Footnotes
4:1 Jesus was soon to start the work that God sent him to do.
4:2 The Devil is an angel that refused to obey God. He also tries to cause people to do bad things.
4:4 The Devil knew that Jesus was very hungry, so he gave him the idea to make stones into food. Jesus knew that he had power to do anything. But he wanted only to obey God. He could make stones into food. But that was not what God wanted. Our bodies are not the most important part of us. Jesus came to give us food for our spirits. That part of us is more important. Jesus knew what God said in his book. And he answered the Devil with words from Deuteronomy 8:3.
4:7 The Devil was telling Jesus that his work could be easier. He would let Jesus rule the world now, if he would obey him. Jesus knew that this was wrong. He knew that he must obey only God.
4:8 Jesus was speaking the words in Deuteronomy 6:13.
4:11 The Devil was using the words from Psalms 91:11-12. But he was not using them in a right way.
4:12 Jesus was speaking words from Deuteronomy 6:16. He was standing on the highest part of the temple. This was 600 metres above the ground. He knew that God did not want him to jump. We must not get into danger just to see God save us.
4:15 Jews used their meeting places to pray together and to learn more about God.
4:16 The Jewish day of rest is our Saturday. This was a special day for them, when nobody worked.
4:16 The Bible that the Jews read was the Old Testament. See Isaiah 58:6; 61:1-2.
4:19 Jesus read the words from Isaiah 61:1-2, but he changed them a bit.
4:26 We can read about this widow in 1 Kings 17:7-24.
4:27 We can read about Naaman in 2 Kings 5.
4:28 Jesus told the people in the meeting place about himself. But they did not like the things that he was saying. They refused to believe that God had sent him.