Luke 4

Luke 4 gives the same account of the temptation of Jesus as Matthew 4. Mark glossed over it, but Matthew and Luke give a nearly identical account of it.

Luke has Jesus returning home after leaving the wilderness, and the first act of his ministry was to preach to the people of Nazareth in the synagogue on the Sabbath. Luke says that when Jesus read from Isaiah the people marveled at Him. Then He started speaking harshly to them and that's when they rejected Him. They wanted to kill Him there but He simply walked away from them, which shows that Jesus had total control over when He would give His life.

Jesus went to Capernaum (Peter's hometown) and was teaching with authority. The authority of Jesus's message was signified by Him casting out a demon from a man in the synagogue. All who saw it testified about Jesus and word began to spread about Him.

An interesting detail about Luke's gospel is that he has Jesus going to Peter's house and healing his mother-in-law before Jesus called Peter to be a disciple. So, by the time Jesus talked to Peter by the fishing boats He would have already met him in his house; and performed miracles and cast out demons among all of Peter's neighbors.

So - according to Luke - Jesus was quite personal with the beginning of His minsitry. The first people He preached to where His own friends and neighbors that He grew up with. Then He went to Peter's synagogue and house and ministered from there. And then Jesus went to preach in the synagogues of Judea - the region around Jerusalem - the heart of Israel.