The Gospel According to St Matthew

 1 Then was Jesus ^aled up of the Spirit into the wilderness ^bto be ^ctempted of the devil.

 2 And when he had ^afasted ^bforty days and forty nights, ^che was afterward an hungred.

 3 And when the ^atempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made ^bbread.

 4 But he answered and said, It is written, ^aMan shall not ^blive by ^cbread alone, but by every ^dword that proceedeth out of the ^emouth of God.

 5 ^aThen the devil taketh him up into the ^bholy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

 6 ^aAnd saith unto him, ^bIf thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

 7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not ^atempt the Lord thy God.

 8 ^aAgain, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the ^bkingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

 9 ^aAnd saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, ^aSatan: for it is written, Thou shalt ^bworship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

 11 Then the devil leaveth him, ^aand, behold, ^bangels came and ministered unto him.

 12 ¶Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into ^aGalilee;

 13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:

 14 That it might be ^afulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

 15 The land of ^aZabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;

 16 The people which sat in ^adarkness saw great ^blight; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

 17 ¶From that time Jesus began to ^apreach, and to say, ^bRepent: for the ^ckingdom of heaven ^dis at hand.

 18 ¶And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were ^afishers.

 19 And he saith unto them, ^aFollow me, and I will make you ^bfishers of men.

 20 And they straightway left their nets, and ^afollowed him.

 21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of ^aZebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he ^bcalled them.

 22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

 23 ¶And Jesus went about all ^aGalilee, ^bteaching in their synagogues, and ^cpreaching the gospel of the kingdom, and ^dhealing all manner of ^esickness and all manner of disease among the ^fpeople.

 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with ^adevils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the ^bpalsy; and he ^chealed them.

 25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judæa, and from beyond Jordan.