Matthew 4

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

And having fasted 40 days and 40 nights, afterward he was hungry.

And having approached, the one tempting said to him, “If you are the Son of God, speak so that these stones might become loaves.”

But he, answering, said, “It is written, ‘Man will not live on bread alone, but by every word coming through the mouth of God.’” \*

Then the devil takes him into the holy city, and he set him on the highest point of the temple,

and says to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘They will lift you up in their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’” \*

Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You will not test the Lord your God.’”

Again, the devil takes him to a very high mountain and shows him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

And he said to him, “All these things I will give you, if having fallen down, you would worship me.” \*

Then Jesus says to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘You will worship the Lord your God, and you will serve only him.’”

Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and began to minister to him. \*

Now, having heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.

And having left Nazareth, having come, he lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territories of Zebulun and Naphtali, \*

so that it might be fulfilled what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, 15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, {the} way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles— 16 the people sitting in darkness have seen a great light, and to the ones sitting in the region and shadow of death, upon them has a light arisen.” \*

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has come near.” \*

Now walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

And he says to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

And immediately, they, having left the nets, followed him. \*

And having gone on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the {son} of Zebedee, and John his brother in the boat with Zebedee their father mending their nets, and he called them,

and immediately they, having left the boat and their father, followed him. \*

And he was going around in all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

And the news of him went out into all Syria, and they brought to him all the ones having sickness, being afflicted by various diseases and pains, and being possessed by demons, and the epileptic and the paralytic, and he healed them.

And large crowds followed him from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and beyond the Jordan. \*