Matthew 4
The Temptation Of Jesus
1Then Jesus was led by the [Holy] Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry.
3And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
4But Jesus replied,
5Then the devil took Him into the holy city [Jerusalem] and placed Him on the pinnacle (highest point) of the temple.
6And he said [mockingly] to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written,
SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.’”
7Jesus said to him,
8Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory [splendor, magnificence, and excellence] of them;
9and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.”
10Then Jesus said to him,
Jesus Begins His Ministry
12Now when Jesus heard that John [the Baptist] had been arrested and put in prison, He left for Galilee.
13And leaving Nazareth, He went and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali.
14This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE [in the district] OF THE GENTILES—
AND FOR THOSE WHO WERE SITTING (living) IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF [spiritual and moral] DEATH,
UPON THEM A LIGHT HAS DAWNED.”
17From that time Jesus began to preach and say,
The First Disciples
18As Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He noticed two brothers, Simon who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
19And He said to them,
Ministry in Galilee 23And He went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news (gospel) of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people [demonstrating and revealing that He was indeed the promised Messiah].
24So the news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were sick, those suffering with various diseases and pains, those under the power of demons, and epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them. 25Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and the other side of the Jordan.
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