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“Then Jesus Was Led Up into the Wilderness by the Spirit”
1 Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil.
2 Fasting forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.
3 The tempter came up and said to him, “If ˢyou are God’s Son, order these stones to become bread.”+
4 In response Jesus+ said, “It is written:
“ ‘Man must live not by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”+
5 Then the devil took Jesus+ to the holy city and had him stand on the wing+ of the temple complex.
6 “If you are God’s Son,” he said to Jesus, “throw yourself down. For it is written,
“ ‘He will give orders concerning ˢyou to his angels,’
and,
“ ‘they will lift ˢyou up with their powerful hands,
so that ˢyou will hit not even your foot against a stone.’+”
7 Jesus said to him, “On the other hand,+ it is written,
“ ‘ˢYou+ must not put to the test the LORD your God!’ ”+
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
9 “I will give ˢyou these things, all of them,” the devil said to him, “if you will fall down and worship me.”
10 “Away with you, Satan!” said Jesus. “For it is written,
“ ‘The LORD ˢyour+ God is the one you must worship;
ˢyou+ are to serve him and him alone!’+”
11 Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came up to him and began caring for his needs.+
“A Light Will Surely Dawn”
12 Now when Jesus+ heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee.
13 Having left Nazareth, he came and settled in the town of Capernaum, by the lake, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali.
14 And so was fulfilled, according to plan, what was spoken about through the prophet Isaiah:
15 “O land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,
along the road to the sea, on the other side of the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles!
16 The people who dwell in darkness
are going to see a very great light;
on those who dwell in a land as dark as the deep shadow of death+
a light will surely dawn!”+
17 From that time Jesus began proclaiming this message:+ “Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is drawing near!”
“Come Along with Me as Disciples”
18 Now while he was walking along the Sea of Galilee, Jesus+ saw two brothers—Simon, who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew—throwing a casting-net into the lake. (They were fishermen, you see.)
19 “Come along with me as disciples,” he said to them, “and I will turn ᵖyou into fishers of people.”
20 So, they left their nets at once and began to accompany him.
21 When he had moved on from that place, he also saw another set of brothers—James the son of Zebedee and his brother John—in their boat with their father Zebedee, setting their nets in order, and he called them.
22 At that, they immediately left the boat and their father and began to accompany him.
“Jesus Traveled About from Place to Place All over Galilee”
23 Jesus+ traveled about from place to place all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel about the kingdom and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.
24 The news about him spread throughout Syria, and they brought to him all who were sick with various diseases and those who were tormented by severe pain, and those with demons and those who had seizures and the paralyzed—and he healed them.
25 Large crowds followed him from Galilee, and from the region of the ten Greek cities to the east,+ and from Jerusalem and Judea and the other side of the Jordan.