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Matthew 4
1Then Yeshua was led up into the wilderness by the spirit to be tempted by the devil.
2And after fasting forty days and forty nights, He was afterward hungry.
3And the tempter came and said to Him: "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
4But He answered and said: "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds through the mouth of God.'"
5Then the devil took Him into the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple,
6and said to Him: "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down, for it is written: 'He will command His angels concerning You, and on their hands they will bear You up, lest You strike Your foot against a stone.'"
7Yeshua said to him: "Again it is written: 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'"
8Again the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,
9and said to Him: "All these things I will give You if You fall down and worship me."
10Then Yeshua said to him: "Go away, Satan! For it is written: 'You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.'"
11Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to Him.
12Now when Yeshua heard that John had been delivered up, He withdrew to Galilee,
13and leaving Nazareth, He came and settled in Capernaum, which is beside the sea in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali,
14so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying:
15"Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations —
16the people sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in the region and shadow of death, light dawned."
17From that time Yeshua began to proclaim and say: "Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near."
18And walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers — Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother — casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
19And He said to them: "Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of people."
20They immediately left the nets and followed Him.
21And going on from there He saw two other brothers — James the son of Zebedee and John his brother — in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and He called them.
22They immediately left the boat and their father and followed Him.
23And Yeshua was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
24And the report about Him went out into all Syria, and they brought to Him all those who were ill — those afflicted with various diseases and torments, evil spirit-possessed, and moon-struck, and paralyzed — and He healed them.
25And large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the ten cities and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.