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,rnaÂm 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,Âs, en Johannes, sy broer, in die skuit saam met hulle vader Sebed,Âs, 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 Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.
2 And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.
3 And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.
4 But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,
6 If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.
7 Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.
8 Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;
9 And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship.
10 Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.
11 Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.
12 Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee;
13 And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali:
14 So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true,
15 The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
16 The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
17 From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.
18 And when he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, whose other name was Peter, and Andrew, his brother, who were putting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
19 And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20 And straight away they let go the nets and went after him.
21 And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in the boat with their father, stitching up their nets; and he said, Come.
22 And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him.
23 And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people.
24 And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil spirits and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well.
25 And there went after him great numbers from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from the other side of Jordan.