Matthew
Chapter 4
1 Then the Jesus was led
into the desert by the spirit, to be tempted by the accuser.
2 And fasting days forty
and nights forty, after he was hungry.
3 And coming to him the
temper, said: If a son thou be of the God, speak, that the stones these loaves
may become.
4 He but answering said:
It is written: Not by bread alone shall live a man; but by every word
proceeding from mouth of God.
5 Then takes him the
accuser into the holy city, and places him on the wing of the temple,
6 and saying to him: if a
son thou be of the God, cast thyself down; it is written for: That to the
messengers of him he will give charge of thee; and on hands they shall raise
thee, lest thou strikes against a stone the foot of thee.
7 Said to him the Jesus:
Again it is written: Not thou shalt put to the proof Lord the God of thee.
8 Again takes him the
accuser into a mountain high exceedingly, and shows to him all the kingdoms of
the world and the glory of them,
9 and says to him: These
all to thee I will give, if falling down thou wilt do homage to me.
10 Then says
to him the Jesus: Go thou behind of me, adversary; it is written for: Lord the
God of thee thou shalt worship, and to him only thou shalt render service.
11 Then leaves
him the accuser; and lo, messengers came and ministered to him.
12 Hearing now
the Jesus, that John was delivered up, he withdrew into the
13 And having
left the
14 that might
be fulfilled the word spoken through Esaias the prophet, saying:
15
16 The people
who are sitting in darkness saw a light great; and to those sitting in a region
even a shade of death, a light has arisen to them.
17 From that
time began the Jesus to proclaim, and to say: Reform; has come nigh for the
royal dignity of the heavens.
18 Walking and
by the sea of the
19 And he says
to them: Come behind of me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20 They and immediately
leaving the nets, followed him.
21 And going on from
thence, he saw other two brothers, James the of the Zebedee and John the
brother of him in the ship with Zebedee of the father of them, mending the nets
of them; and called them.
22 They and forthwith
leaving the ship and the father of them, followed him.
23 And went about all the
Galilee the Jesus, teaching in the synagogues of them, and preaching the glad
tidings of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every malady among the people.
24 And went the report of
him into all the Syria; and they brought to him all the sick having, various
diseases and torments seized with, and demoniacs, and lunaties, and paralytics;
and he cured them.
25 And followed to him
crowds great from the Galilee, and Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and Judea,
and beyond of the Jordan.
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