Luke 4:34

³² They were astonished at His teaching, because His message had authority.

³³ In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon. He cried out in a loud voice,

“Ha! What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

³⁵ But Jesus rebuked the demon. “Be silent!” He said. “Come out of him!” At this, the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without harming him.

³⁶ All the people were overcome with amazement and asked one another, “What is this message? With authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: “Ha! What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
KJV: Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
WEB: saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”
ASV: Ah! what have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
DARBY: saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy [One] of God.
BLB: “Ha! What to us and to You, Jesus the Nazarene? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

ÅB: Å, hva har vi med deg å gjøre, Jesus fra Nasaret? Du er kommet for å ødelegge oss; jeg vet hvem du er, du Guds hellige!
OTB: «La oss være! Hva vil du med oss, Jesus fra Nasaret? Har du kommet for å ødelegge oss? Jeg vet hvem du er—Guds Hellige!»
B1930: Å, hvad har vi med dig å gjøre, Jesus fra Nasaret? Du er kommet for å ødelegge oss; jeg vet hvem du er, du Guds hellige!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Mark 1:24
“What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
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James 2:19
You believe that God is one. Good for you! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
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Matthew 8:29
“What do You want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have You come here to torture us before the appointed time?”
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Revelation 3:7
To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
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Luke 1:35
The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
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Acts 3:14
You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
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Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
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Luke 4:41
Demons also came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But He rebuked the demons and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Christ.
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