Matthew 3-4

Matthew 3

¹And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,

²and saying, ‘Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

³for this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, ‘A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths.'

⁴And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field.

⁵Then were going forth unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan,

⁶and they were baptized in the Jordan by him, confessing their sins.

⁷And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, ‘Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?

⁸bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

⁹and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

¹⁰and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast.

¹¹‘I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

¹²whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

¹³Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,

¹⁴but John was forbidding him, saying, ‘I have need by thee to be baptized -- and thou dost come unto me!'

¹⁵But Jesus answering said to him, ‘Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.

¹⁶And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and lo, opened to him were the heavens, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him,

¹⁷and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, ‘This is My Son -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'

Matthew 4

¹Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil,

²and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.

³And the Tempter having come to him said, ‘If Son thou art of God -- speak that these stones may become loaves.'

⁴But he answering said, ‘It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

⁵Then doth the Devil take him to the holy city, and doth set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

⁶and saith to him, ‘If Son thou art of God -- cast thyself down, for it hath been written, that, His messengers He shall charge concerning thee, and on hands they shall bear thee up, that thou mayest not dash on a stone thy foot.'

⁷Jesus said to him again, ‘It hath been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

⁸Again doth the Devil take him to a very high mount, and doth shew to him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them,

⁹and saith to him, ‘All these to thee I will give, if falling down thou mayest bow to me.'

¹⁰Then saith Jesus to him, ‘Go -- Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

¹¹Then doth the Devil leave him, and lo, messengers came and were ministering to him.

¹²And Jesus having heard that John was delivered up, did withdraw to Galilee,

¹³and having left Nazareth, having come, he dwelt at Capernaum that is by the sea, in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtalim,

¹⁴that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

¹⁵‘Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations! --

¹⁶the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'

¹⁷From that time began Jesus to proclaim and to say, ‘Reform ye, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens.'

¹⁸And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon named Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea -- for they were fishers --

¹⁹and he saith to them, ‘Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men,'

²⁰and they, immediately, having left the nets, did follow him.

²¹And having advanced thence, he saw other two brothers, James of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, refitting their nets, and he called them,

²²and they, immediately, having left the boat and their father, did follow him.

²³And Jesus was going about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every disease, and every malady among the people,

²⁴and his fame went forth to all Syria, and they brought to him all having ailments, pressed with manifold sicknesses and pains, and demoniacs, and lunatics, and paralytics, and he healed them.

²⁵And there followed him many multitudes from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond the Jordan.