1 Toe is Jesus deur die Gees weggelei die woestyn in om versoek te word deur die duiwel.

2 En nadat Hy veertig dae en veertig nagte gevas het, het Hy naderhand honger geword.

3 En die versoeker het na Hom gekom en gesê: As U die Seun van God is, sê dat hierdie klippe brode word.

4 Maar Hy antwoord en sê: Daar is geskrywe: Die mens sal nie van brood alleen lewe nie, maar van elke woord wat deur die mond van God uitgaan.

5 Toe neem die duiwel Hom saam na die heilige stad en laat Hom op die dak van die tempel staan

6 en sê vir Hom: As U die Seun van God is, werp Uself af; want daar is geskrywe: Hy sal sy engele bevel gee aangaande U, en hulle sal U op die hande dra, sodat U nie miskien u voet teen 'n klip stamp nie.

7 Jesus sê vir hom: Daar is ook geskrywe: Jy mag die Here jou God nie versoek nie.

8 Weer neem die duiwel Hom saam na 'n baie hoë berg en wys Hom al die koninkryke van die wêreld en hulle heerlikheid,

9 en sê vir Hom: Al hierdie dinge sal ek aan U gee as U neerval en my aanbid.

10 Toe sê Jesus vir hom: Gaan weg, Satan! want daar is geskrywe: Die Here jou God moet jy aanbid en Hom alleen dien.

11 Daarna het die duiwel Hom laat staan, en daar het engele gekom en Hom gedien.

12 En toe Jesus hoor dat Johannes in die gevangenis gesit was, het Hy na Galil,a teruggegaan.

13 En Hy het N saret verlaat en gaan woon in Kap,rnam aan die see, in die gebied van S,bulon en N ftali,

14 sodat vervul sou word wat gespreek is deur Jesaja, die profeet, toe hy gesê het:

15 Die land S,bulon en die land N ftali, na die see toe, oorkant die Jordaan, Galil,a van die heidene --

16 die volk wat in duisternis sit, het 'n groot lig gesien, en die wat sit in die land en skaduwee van die dood, vir hulle het 'n lig opgegaan.

17 Van toe af het Jesus begin om te preek en te sê: Bekeer julle, want die koninkryk van die hemele het naby gekom.

18 En terwyl Jesus langs die see van Galil,a loop, sien Hy twee broers, Simon wat genoem word Petrus, en Andr,as, sy broer, besig om 'n net in die see uit te gooi; want hulle was vissers.

19 En Hy sê vir hulle: Kom agter My aan, en Ek sal julle vissers van mense maak.

20 En hulle het dadelik die nette laat staan en Hom gevolg.

21 En toe Hy daarvandaan verder gaan, sien Hy twee ander broers, Jakobus, die seun van Sebed,s, en Johannes, sy broer, in die skuit saam met hulle vader Sebed,s, besig om hulle nette heel te maak; en Hy het hulle geroep.

22 En hulle het dadelik die skuit en hulle vader verlaat en Hom gevolg.

23 En Jesus het deur die hele Galil,a rondgegaan en in hulle sinagoges geleer en die evangelie van die koninkryk verkondig en elke siekte en elke kwaal onder die volk genees.

24 En die gerug aangaande Hom is versprei oor die hele S¡rië; en hulle het na Hom gebring almal wat ongesteld was, wat gekwel was deur allerhande siektes en pyne en wat van duiwels besete was, en maansiekes en verlamdes; en Hy het hulle gesond gemaak.

25 En groot menigtes het Hom gevolg van Galil,a en Dek polis en Jerusalem en Judia en van oorkant die Jordaan af.

1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered. 3 And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and saith unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written,

He shall give his angels charge concerning thee:

and,

On their hands they shall bear thee up,

Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.

7 Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God. 8 Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 and he said 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, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 11 Then the devil leaveth him; and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

12 Now when he heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee; 13 and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali: 14 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

15 The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,

Toward the sea, beyond the Jordan,

Galilee of the Gentiles,

16 The people that sat in darkness

Saw a great light,

And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death,

To them did light spring up.

17 From that time began Jesus to preach, and to say, Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

18 And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers. 19 And he saith unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men. 20 And they straightway left the nets, and followed him. 21 And going on from thence he saw two other brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. 22 And they straightway left the boat and their father, and followed him.

23 And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness among the people. 24 And the report of him went forth into all Syria: and they brought unto him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases and torments, possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied; and he healed them. 25 And there followed him great multitudes from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judæa and from beyond the Jordan.