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¹ Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil: ² there having fasted forty days and forty nights, he at length grew hungry. ³ whereupon the tempter came to him, and said, "If thou be the Son of God, command these stones to become bread." ⁴ but Jesus answered him, It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every thing that God shall prescribe." ⁵ then the devil took Jesus with him to Jerusalem, and having set him on the wing of the temple, he said to him, ⁶ if you are the Son of God, throw your self down: for it is written , "he will charge his angels to take care of you, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest you bruise your foot against a stone." ⁷ Jesus replied, it is likewise written, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." ⁸ Again, the devil accompanyed him up a very high mountain, and representing to him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them: all these things, ⁹ said he, will I give you, if you will prostrate your self and worship me. ¹⁰ Then said Jesus to him, get thee hence Satan: for it it written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve ." ¹¹ whereupon the devil left him, and immediately angels came and ministred unto him.

¹² After this, Jesus having heard that John was confined in prison, retired into Galilee. ¹³ and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, a maritime town upon the confines of Zabulon and Nepthalim: ¹⁴ whereby those words of Esaias the prophet, had their full effect, "the land of Zabulon, ¹⁵ and the land of Nephthalim, lying upon the sea, and about Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: ¹⁶ the people which sat in darkness, saw a great light: and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up." ¹⁷ from that time Jesus began to preach, "Repent, said he, for the kingdom of the Messiah draws nigh."

¹⁸ Now as Jesus was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting their net into the sea: for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ and he said to them, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men: ²⁰ so they immediately left their nets, and followed him. ²¹ Going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were in a bark with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and Jesus having called them, ²² they immediately left the bark with their father, and followed him.

²³ Thus went Jesus about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all sorts of diseases and infirmities among the people: ²⁴ so that his fame was spread over all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were afflicted with any diseases or pains, demoniacs, lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them. ²⁵ and a great multitude of people followed him from Galilee, from Decapolis, from Jerusalem, from Judea, and from about Jordan.