The King is tested in the wilderness
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📚Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil✭. 2 📚✭And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. 3 📚And when the tempter✭ came to him, he said, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread”.4 📚✭But he answered and said,
“It is written,✭ Man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word
that comes from the mouth of God✭”.
5 📚Then the devil took him up to the holy city✭, and had him stand on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 📚✭and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,
He will give his angels a command
concerning you,
and they will bear you up in their hands,
so that you will not at any time strike
your foot against a stone”.
7 📚✭Jesus said to him,
“Again, it is written,
You shall not test the Lord
your God”.
8 📚✭Again, the devil took him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, 9 📚and said to him, “All these things I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me”.
10 📚✭Then Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan. For it is written,
You shall worship the Lord your God,
and you shall serve only him”.
11 📚✭Then the devil left him, and, at once, angels came and ministered to him.
The King begins His public ministry
12 📚Now when Jesus heard that John had been thrown into prison, he went to Galilee. 13 📚✭And leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the lake, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14 📚so that there might be a fulfilment of what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying,
15 📚✭The land of Zebulun and
the land of Naphtali,
the way to the sea, beyond
the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles:
16 📚The people who sat in darkness
have seen a great light,
and on those who sat in the region
and shadow of death light
has dawned.
17 📚From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent,✭ for the kingdom of heaven✭ is at hand”.
18 📚And Jesus, walking by the lake of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 19 📚✭And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men”. 20 📚✭And immediately they left their nets, and followed him.
21 📚✭And going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother. They were in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. 22 📚And immediately they left the ship and their father, and followed him.
23 📚And Jesus went around all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues✭, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and disease among the people. 24 📚And his fame spread all over Syria✭. And they brought to him all who were in the grip of various diseases and acute pains, and those who were demon-possessed✭, and epileptics and paralytics. And he healed them. 25 📚✭And great multitudes from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan, followed him.