Matthew 4

¹Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil.

²And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.

³And the tempter, having come, said to him, If you are the Son of God, speak that these stones may become loaves of bread.

⁴But he answered and said, It has been written: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out through the mouth of God.

⁵Then the devil takes him into the holy city and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,

⁶and he says to him, If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it has been written that to his angels he will give orders concerning you, and on their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.

⁷Jesus said to him, Again it has been written, You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.

⁸Again the devil takes him to an exceedingly high mountain and shows him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,

⁹And he said to him, All these things I will give you, if, falling down, you will worship me.

¹⁰Then Jesus says to him, Go away behind me, Satan; for it has been written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.

¹¹Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.

¹²Now Jesus, having heard that John had been handed over, withdrew into Galilee.

¹³And having left Nazareth, he came and dwelt at Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

¹⁴so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,

¹⁵Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—

¹⁶the people sitting in darkness saw a great light, and on those sitting in the land and shadow of death, a light has dawned upon them.

¹⁷From that time Jesus began to proclaim and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.

¹⁸Now as he was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

¹⁹And he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

²⁰And they, immediately leaving the nets, followed him.

²¹And going 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.

²²And they, immediately having left the boat and their father, followed him.

²³And Jesus was going about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

²⁴And the report of him went out into all Syria; and they brought to him all those who were ill, oppressed with various diseases and torments, and those possessed by demons and those who were epileptic and paralytics; and he healed them.

²⁵And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and beyond the Jordan.