Matthew - Chapter 4

1 Then Yeshua was taken by the Holy Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the accuser. 2 And he fasted for forty days and forty nights, after which he began to hunger. 3 The tempter approached him and said to him" "If you are the Son of God, say to these stones 'become bread'."

4 And he answered: "It is written in Tanakh*, 'Not by bread alone does the son of man live, but by all the words that proceed from the mouth of God.'" * 5 Then the accuser took him into the Holy City and raised him upon the edge of the temple, 6 and said to him, "If you the Son of God, cast yourself down, for it is written: 'He will put his angels in command of you.' and, 'Upon their hands they will bear you up, that your foot should not strike a stone.'" *

7 Yeshua said to him, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test Mar-Yah your God.'" * 8 Again, the accuser took him to a mountain that was very high, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.* 9 And the accuser to him: "I will give you all of these [things] if you will fall and worship me."

10 Then Yeshua said to him: "Leave enemy! * For it is written that 'you shall worship Mar-Yah your God, and him alone shall you serve.'" * 11 Then the accuser left him, and behold, angels approached and were ministering to him.

12 Now when Yeshua heard that Yokhanan was arrested, he departed to Galil. 13 And he left Nasrath and he came and dwelled in Capernaum, on the side of the sea by the border of Zevulun and Naphtali, 14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet who said, 15 "The land of Zevulun, the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Yordan, Galil of the nations, 16 the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and those who sit in the land and the shadow of death, for them a light has appeared." *

17 From that time, Yeshua began to preach and to say, "Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is near." 18 And when he was walking by on the side of the Sea of Galil, he * saw two brothers: Shimon, who was called Keipha, and Andreos, his brother, who were casting nets into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 Yeshua said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you so that you become fishers of the sons of men."

20 And at once they left their nets and they went after him. 21 And when he crossed from there, he saw two other brothers, Jacob the son of Zavddai, and Yokhanan his brother, in a boat with their father Zavddai, who were mending their nets. Yeshua called them. 22 And at once they left the ship and their father, and they went after him.

23 And Yeshua would preach in all Galil, and would teach in their assemblies; and he preached the hope of the Kingdom, and he healed every disease and sickness among the people. 24 And his fame was heard in all Syria. And they approached him who were sick with various illnesses and those who were oppressed with pain, and possessed, and mentally ill, and paralytics; and he healed them. 25 A great crowd from Galil went after him, and from Decapolis, Yerushalayim, Yudah and from across the Yordan.