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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Matthew 4 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Matthew 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/3.htm" title="Matthew 3">◄</a> Matthew 4 <a href="../matthew/5.htm" title="Matthew 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/matthew/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jesus is Tempted by Satan</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/1.htm">Mark 1:12-13</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/4.htm">Luke 4:1-13</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After this, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>After fasting for 40 days and 40 nights, he finally became hungry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the tempter came. “Since<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:3 Or “If, as is the case,">a</a></span> you are the Son of God,” he said, “tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But he answered, <span class="red">“It is written,</span></p> <p class="poetry2"><span class="red">‘One must not live on bread alone,</span></p> <p class="poetry2"><span class="red">but on every word coming</span></p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot"><span class="red">out of the mouth of God.’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:4 Deut 8:3; MT source citation reads LORD">b</a></span> </span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the devil took him to the Holy City<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:5 i.e. Jerusalem">c</a></span> and had him stand on the highest point of the Temple. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He told Jesus,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:6 Lit. him">d</a></span> “Since<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:6 Or “If, as is the case,">e</a></span> you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, because it is written,</p> <p class="poetry2">‘God<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:6 Lit. He">f</a></span> will put his angels in charge of you,’</p> <p class="reg">and,</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">‘With their hands they will hold you up,</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:6 Cf. Ps 91:11-12">g</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jesus responded to him, <span class="red">“It is also written, ‘You must not tempt the Lord<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:7 MT source citation reads LORD">h</a></span> your God.’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:7 Cf. Deut 6:16">i</a></span> </span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Once more the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, along with their splendor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He told Jesus,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:9 Lit. him">j</a></span> “I will give you all these things if you will bow down and worship me!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Jesus told him, <span class="red">“Go away,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:10 Other mss. read Get behind me">k</a></span> Satan! Because it is written,</span></p> <p class="poetry2"><span class="red">‘You must worship the Lord your God</span></p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot"><span class="red">and serve only him.’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:10 Deut 6:13">l</a></span> </span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So the devil left him, and angels came and began ministering to him.</p> <p class="heading">Jesus Begins His Ministry in Galilee</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/1.htm">Mark 1:14-15</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/4.htm">Luke 4:14-15</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now when Jesus<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:12 Lit. he">m</a></span> heard that John had been arrested, he went back to Galilee. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He left Nazareth and settled in Capernaum by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>in order to fulfill what was declared by the prophet Isaiah when he said,</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“O Land of Zebulun and Land of Naphtali,</p> <p class="poetry2">on the road to the sea, across the Jordan,</p> <p class="poetry2">Galilee of the unbelievers!<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:15 Lit. gentiles ; i.e. unbelieving non-Jews">n</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The people living<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:16 Lit. sitting">o</a></span> in darkness have seen a great light,</p> <p class="poetry2">and for those living<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:16 Lit. sitting">p</a></span> in the land and shadow of death,</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">a light has risen.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:16 Cf. Isa 9:1-2">q</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>From then on, Jesus began to announce, <span class="red">“Repent, because the kingdom from<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:17 Lit. of">r</a></span> heaven is near!”</span></p> <p class="heading">Jesus Calls Four Fishermen</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/mark/1.htm">Mark 1:16-20</a>; <a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/5.htm">Luke 5:1-11</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>While Jesus<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:18 Lit. he">s</a></span> was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon (also<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:18 The Gk. lacks also">t</a></span> called Peter) and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, because they were fishermen. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">“Follow me,”</span> he told them, <span class="red">“and I will make you fishers of people!”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So at once they left their nets and followed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Going on from there he saw two other brothers—James, son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee repairing their nets. When he called them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>they immediately left the boat and their father and followed him.</p> <p class="heading">Jesus Ministers to Many People</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/luke/6.htm">Luke 6:17-19</a>)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then he went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>His fame spread throughout Syria, and people<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:24 Lit. they">u</a></span> brought to him everyone who was sick—those afflicted with various diseases and pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralyzed—and he healed them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="4:25 Lit. the Ten Cities, a loose federation of ten cities strongly influenced by Greek culture">v</a></span> Jerusalem, Judea, and from across the Jordan followed him.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 4:3 Or <i>“If, as is the case,</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 4:4 Deut 8:3; MT source citation reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 4:5 i.e. Jerusalem<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 4:6 Lit. <i>him</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 4:6 Or <i>“If, as is the case,</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 4:6 Lit. <i>He</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 4:6 Cf. Ps 91:11-12<br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 4:7 MT source citation reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 4:7 Cf. Deut 6:16<br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 4:9 Lit. <i>him</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 4:10 Other mss. read <i>Get behind me</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 4:10 Deut 6:13<br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 4:12 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 4:15 Lit. <i>gentiles </i>; i.e. unbelieving non-Jews<br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 4:16 Lit. <i>sitting</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 4:16 Lit. <i>sitting</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 4:16 Cf. 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