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Matthew 4

¹Then the Spirit led Jesus into the desert to be tempted by the Devil.

²After spending forty days and nights without food, Jesus was hungry.

³Then the Devil came to him and said, "If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn into bread."

⁴But Jesus answered, "The scripture says, 'Human beings cannot live on bread alone, but need every word that God speaks.'"

⁵Then the Devil took Jesus to Jerusalem, the Holy City, set him on the highest point of the Temple,

⁶and said to him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for the scripture says, 'God will give orders to his angels about you; they will hold you up with their hands, so that not even your feet will be hurt on the stones.' "

⁷Jesus answered, "But the scripture also says, 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' "

⁸Then the Devil took Jesus to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in all their greatness.

⁹"All this I will give you,"the Devil said, "if you kneel down and worship me."

¹⁰Then Jesus answered, "Go away, Satan! The scripture says, 'Worship the Lord your God and serve only him!'"

¹¹Then the Devil left Jesus; and angels came and helped him.

¹²When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee.

¹³He did not stay in Nazareth, but went to live in Capernaum, a town by Lake Galilee, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali.

¹⁴This was done to make come true what the prophet Isaiah had said,

¹⁵"Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, on the road to the sea, on the other side of the Jordan, Galilee, land of the Gentiles!

¹⁶The people who live in darkness will see a great light. On those who live in the dark land of death the light will shine."

¹⁷From that time Jesus began to preach his message: "Turn away from your sins, because the Kingdom of heaven is near!"

¹⁸As Jesus walked along the shore of Lake Galilee, he saw two brothers who were fishermen, Simon (called Peter) and his brother Andrew, catching fish in the lake with a net.

¹⁹Jesus said to them, "Come with me, and I will teach you to catch people."

²⁰At once they left their nets and went with him.

²¹He went on and saw two other brothers, James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in their boat with their father Zebedee, getting their nets ready. Jesus called them,

²²and at once they left the boat and their father, and went with him.

²³Jesus went all over Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, preaching the Good News about the Kingdom, and healing people who had all kinds of disease and sickness.

²⁴The news about him spread through the whole country of Syria, so that people brought to him all those who were sick, suffering from all kinds of diseases and disorders: people with demons, and epileptics, and paralytics---and Jesus healed them all.

²⁵Large crowds followed him from Galilee and the Ten Towns, from Jerusalem, Judea, and the land on the other side of the Jordan.