Matthew 4

Chapter 4

¹Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil: ²and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered. ³And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread. ⁴But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God’s mouth. ⁵Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon the edge of the temple, ⁶and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on their hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone. ⁷Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. ⁸Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory, ⁹and says to him, All these things will I give thee if, falling down, thou wilt do me homage. ¹⁰Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve. ¹¹Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.

¹²But having heard that John was delivered up, he departed into Galilee: ¹³and having left Nazareth, he went and dwelt at Capernaum, which is on the sea-side in the borders of Zabulon and Nepthalim, ¹⁴that that might be fulfilled which was spoken through Esaias the prophet, saying, ¹⁵Land of Zabulon and land of Nepthalim, way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations: ¹⁶—the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in the country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up. ¹⁷From that time began Jesus to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh.

¹⁸And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers; ¹⁹and he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men. ²⁰And they, having left their trawl-nets, immediately followed him. ²¹And going on thence he saw other two brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their trawl-nets, and he called them; ²²and they, having left the ship and their father, immediately followed him.

²³And Jesus went round the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people. ²⁴And his fame went out into the whole of Syria, and they brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them. ²⁵And great crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judaea, and beyond the Jordan.