Matthew Chapter 4 Darby English Bible

Matthew 4:1

Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil:

Matthew 4:2

and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

Matthew 4:3

And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.

Matthew 4:4

But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth.

Matthew 4:5

Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon the edge of the temple,

Matthew 4:6

and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on [their] hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone.

Matthew 4:7

Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God.

Matthew 4:8

Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory,

Matthew 4:9

and says to him, All these things will I give thee if, falling down, thou wilt do me homage.

Matthew 4:10

Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to [the] Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.

Matthew 4:11

Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.

Matthew 4:12

But having heard that John was delivered up, he departed into Galilee:

Matthew 4:13

and having left Nazareth, he went and dwelt at Capernaum, which is on the sea-side in the borders of Zabulon and Nepthalim,

Matthew 4:14

that that might be fulfilled which was spoken through Esaias the prophet, saying,

Matthew 4:15

Land of Zabulon and land of Nepthalim, way of [the] sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

Matthew 4:16

-- the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in [the] country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up.

Matthew 4:17

From that time began Jesus to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh.

Matthew 4:18

And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers;

Matthew 4:19

and he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Matthew 4:20

And they, having left their trawl-nets, immediately followed him.

Matthew 4:21

And going on thence he saw other two brothers, James the [son] of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their trawl-nets, and he called them;

Matthew 4:22

and they, having left the ship and their father, immediately followed him.

Matthew 4:23

And [Jesus] went round the whole [of] Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people.

Matthew 4:24

And his fame went out into the whole [of] Syria, and they brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

Matthew 4:25

And great crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judaea, and beyond the Jordan.