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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 BLB</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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BLB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/matthew/4.htm" width="100%" height="32" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Berean Literal Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Temptation of Jesus<br /><span class="cross">(Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the <i>one</i> tempting, having come to Him, said “If You are Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But answering He said, <span class="red">“It has been written:</span></p><p class="indent1stlinered">‘The man shall live not by bread alone,</p><p class="indentred2"> but by every word coming out of <i>the</i> mouth of God.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="Deuteronomy 8:3">a</a></span>” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the devil takes Him to the holy city and sets Him upon the pinnacle of the temple, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and says to him, “If You are Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it has been written:</p><p class="indent1stline">‘He will give orders to His angels concerning You,</p><p class="indent2"> and will they bear You up in <i>their</i> hands,</p><p class="indent1"> lest ever You strike Your foot</p><p class="indent2"> against a stone.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fnb" title="Psalm 91:11,12">b</a></span>” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Jesus said to him, <span class="red">“Again it has been written: ‘You shall not test <i>the</i> Lord your God.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fnc" title="Deuteronomy 6:16">c</a></span>”</span> </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Again the devil takes Him to a mountain exceedingly high and shows to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he says to Him, “All these things I will give to You, if falling down, You will worship me.” </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Jesus says to him, <span class="red">“Get you away, Satan! For it has been written: ‘You shall worship <i>the</i> Lord your God, and Him alone shall you serve.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fnd" title="Deuteronomy 6:13">d</a></span>”</span> </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the devil leaves Him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to Him. </p><p class="hdg">Jesus Begins His Ministry<br /><span class="cross">(Isaiah 9:1-7; Mark 1:14-15; Luke 4:14-15)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And having heard that John had been arrested, He withdrew into Galilee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And having left Nazareth, having come, he dwelt at Capernaum, on the sea-side in <i>the</i> region of Zebulun and Naphtali, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>that it might be fulfilled that having been spoken through the prophet Isaiah, saying: </p><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,</p><p class="indent2"> way of <i>the</i> sea, beyond the Jordan,</p><p class="indent2"> Galilee of the Gentiles— </p><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>the people sitting in darkness have seen a great light,</p><p class="indent2"> and to those sitting in <i>the</i> land and shadow of death,</p><p class="indent2"> a light has dawned on them.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fne" title="Isaiah 9:1,2">e</a></span> </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>From that time Jesus began to proclaim and to say, <span class="red">“Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near!”</span> </p><p class="hdg">The First Disciples<br /><span class="cross">(Matthew 13:47-52; Mark 1:16-20; Luke 5:1-11; John 1:35-42)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And He says to them, <span class="red">“Come follow after Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And immediately having left the nets, they followed Him. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And having gone on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the <i>son</i> of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. And He called them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and immediately having left the boat and their father they followed Him. </p><p class="hdg">Jesus Heals the Multitudes<br /><span class="cross">(Luke 6:17-19)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And He was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the news of Him went out into all Syria. And they brought to Him all the sick having various diseases and oppressing pains, and being possessed by demons, and having seizures, and paralytics—and He healed them. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And there followed Him great crowds from Galilee, and <i>the</i> Decapolis,<span class="fn"><a href="#fnf" title="That is, the Ten Cities">f</a></span> and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond the Jordan.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnote">Deuteronomy 8:3</span><br /><A name="fnb"></a><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnote">Psalm 91:11,12</span><br /><A name="fnc"></a><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnote">Deuteronomy 6:16</span><br /><A name="fnd"></a><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnote">Deuteronomy 6:13</span><br /><A name="fne"></a><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">15-16</span> <span class="footnote">Isaiah 9:1,2</span><br /><A name="fnf"></a><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnote">That is, the Ten Cities</span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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