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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2After he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then the tempter approached him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written: He will give his angels orders concerning you, and they will support you with their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Jesus told him, "It is also written: Do not test the Lord your God." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And he said to him, "I will give you all these things if you will fall down and worship me." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then Jesus told him, "Go away, Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then the devil left him, and angels came and began to serve him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, along the road by the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The people who live in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17From then on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18As he was walking along the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter), and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea--for they were fishermen. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Follow me," he told them, "and I will make you fish for people." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Immediately they left their nets and followed him. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat with Zebedee their father, preparing their nets, and he called them. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Now Jesus began to go all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Then the news about him spread throughout Syria. So they brought to him all those who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics. And he healed them. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan. |
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