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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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"><title>Matthew 4 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Temptation of Jesus</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 1:12">Mark 1.12</ref>,<ref loc="MRK 1:13">13</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 4:1-13">Luke 4.1-13</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_1"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.1" class="v40_4_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.4.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then the Spirit led Jesus into the desert to be tempted by the Devil. </span><span class="v40_4_2"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.2" class="v40_4_2">2</span>After spending forty days and nights without food, Jesus was hungry. </span><span class="v40_4_3"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.3" class="v40_4_3">3</span>Then the Devil came to him and said, “If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn into bread.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_4"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.4" class="v40_4_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.4.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But Jesus answered, “The scripture says, ‘Human beings cannot live on bread alone, but need every word that God speaks.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_5"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.5" class="v40_4_5">5</span>Then the Devil took Jesus to Jerusalem, the Holy City, set him on the highest point of the Temple, </span><span class="v40_4_6"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.6" class="v40_4_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.4.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and said to him, “If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for the scripture says,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_4_6">‘God will give orders to his angels about you;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_4_6">they will hold you up with their hands,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_4_6">so that not even your feet will be hurt on the stones.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_7"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.7" class="v40_4_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.4.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jesus answered, “But the scripture also says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_8"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.8" class="v40_4_8">8</span>Then the Devil took Jesus to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in all their greatness. </span><span class="v40_4_9"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.9" class="v40_4_9">9</span>“All this I will give you,” the Devil said, “if you kneel down and worship me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_10"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.10" class="v40_4_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.4.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then Jesus answered, “Go away, Satan! The scripture says, ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve only him!’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_11"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.11" class="v40_4_11">11</span>Then the Devil left Jesus; and angels came and helped him.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Begins His Work in Galilee</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 1:14">Mark 1.14</ref>,<ref loc="MRK 1:15">15</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 4:14">Luke 4.14</ref>,<ref loc="LUK 4:15">15</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_12"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.12" class="v40_4_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.4.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee. </span><span class="v40_4_13"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.13" class="v40_4_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.4.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> He did not stay in Nazareth, but went to live in Capernaum, a town by Lake Galilee, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali. </span><span class="v40_4_14"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.14" class="v40_4_14">14</span>This was done to make come true what the prophet Isaiah had said,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_4_15"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.15" class="v40_4_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.4.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_4_15">on the road to the sea, on the other side of the Jordan,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_4_15">Galilee, land of the Gentiles!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_4_16"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.16" class="v40_4_16">16</span>The people who live in darkness</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_4_16">will see a great light.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_4_16">On those who live in the dark land of death</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_4_16">the light will shine.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_17"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.17" class="v40_4_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.4.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> From that time Jesus began to preach his message: “Turn away from your sins, because the Kingdom of heaven is near!”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Calls Four Fishermen</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 1:16-20">Mark 1.16-20</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 5:1-11">Luke 5.1-11</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_18"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.18" class="v40_4_18">18</span>As Jesus walked along the shore of Lake Galilee, he saw two brothers who were fishermen, Simon (called Peter) and his brother Andrew, catching fish in the lake with a net. </span><span class="v40_4_19"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.19" class="v40_4_19">19</span>Jesus said to them, “Come with me, and I will teach you to catch people.” </span><span class="v40_4_20"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.20" class="v40_4_20">20</span>At once they left their nets and went with him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_21"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.21" class="v40_4_21">21</span>He went on and saw two other brothers, James and John, the sons of Zebedee. They were in their boat with their father Zebedee, getting their nets ready. Jesus called them, </span><span class="v40_4_22"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.22" class="v40_4_22">22</span>and at once they left the boat and their father, and went with him.</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Teaches, Preaches, and Heals</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="LUK 6:17-19">Luke 6.17-19</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_4_23"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.23" class="v40_4_23">23</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.4.23!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jesus went all over Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, preaching the Good News about the Kingdom, and healing people who had all kinds of disease and sickness. </span><span class="v40_4_24"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.24" class="v40_4_24">24</span>The news about him spread through the whole country of Syria, so that people brought to him all those who were sick, suffering from all kinds of diseases and disorders: people with demons, and epileptics, and paralyzed people—and Jesus healed them all. </span><span class="v40_4_25"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.4.25" class="v40_4_25">25</span>Large crowds followed him from Galilee and the Ten Towns, from Jerusalem, Judea, and the land on the other side of the Jordan.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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