Part 14 (1/2)

IV.

AND Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan; and he was led in the Sprit into the wilderness (2)forty days, tempted by the Devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he hungered.

(3)And the Devil said to him: If thou art the Son of G.o.d, command this stone that it become bread. (4)And Jesus answered him, saying: It is written, Man shall not live on bread alone.

(5)And the Devil, leading him up into a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. (6)And the Devil said to him: All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them; because it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomsoever I will. (7)If thou therefore wilt wors.h.i.+p me, all shall be thine. (8)And Jesus answering said to him: It is written, Thou shalt wors.h.i.+p the Lord thy G.o.d, and him only shalt thou serve.

(9)And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him: If thou art the Son of G.o.d, cast thyself down from hence. (10)For it is written: He will give his angels command concerning thee, to keep thee; (11)and on their hands they shall bear thee up, lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone. (12)And Jesus answering said to him: It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy G.o.d.

(13)And having finished every temptation, the Devil departed from him for a season.

(14)And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee; and there went out a report concerning him through all the surrounding country. (15)And he taught in their synagogues, being honored by all.

(16)And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day; and he stood up to read. (17)And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And unrolling the book, he found the place where it was written:

(18)The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; Because he anointed me to publish good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to proclaim deliverance to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To send the oppressed away free, (19)To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

(20)And rolling up the book he gave it again to the servant, and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

(21)And he began to say to them: To-day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. (22)And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said: Is not this Joseph's son? (23)And he said to them: Ye will surely say to me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself. Whatever we heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. (24)And he said: Verily I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. (25)But I tell you of a truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the land; (26)and to none of them was Elijah sent, but unto Zarephath of Sidonia, to a woman that was a widow.

(27)And there were many lepers in Israel, in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.

(28)And all in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath. (29)And they rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, to cast him down headlong. (30)But he, pa.s.sing through the midst of them, went away.

(31)And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the sabbath; (32)and they were astonished at his teaching, because his word was with power.

(33)And in the synagogue there was a man having a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice, (34)saying: Ah! what have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Didst thou come to destroy us?

I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of G.o.d. (35)And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Hold thy peace, and come out from him. And the demon throwing him in the midst came out from him, doing him no harm.

(36)And amazement came on all; and they spoke with one another, saying: What is this word, that with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out? (37)And there went out a rumor concerning him into every place of the country around.

(38)And he rose up and went from the synagogue, and entered into the house of Simon. And the mother-in-law of Simon was seized with a violent fever[4:38]; and they besought him for her. (39)And standing over her he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and immediately she arose and ministered to them.

(40)Now when the sun was setting, all that had any sick with divers diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on each one of them, and healed them. (41)And demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying: Thou art the Son of G.o.d. And he, rebuking them, suffered them not to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

(42)And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place. And the mult.i.tudes sought him, and came to him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them. (43)And he said to them: I must publish the good news of the kingdom of G.o.d to other cities also; because for this I was sent forth. (44)And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.

V.

AND it came to pa.s.s, as the mult.i.tude pressed upon him to hear the word of G.o.d, and he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, (2)that he saw two s.h.i.+ps standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were was.h.i.+ng the nets. (3)And entering into one of the s.h.i.+ps, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And sitting down, he taught the mult.i.tudes out of the s.h.i.+p.

(4)And when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon: Put out into the deep; and do ye let down your nets for a draught. (5)And Simon answering said to him: Master, we toiled all night and took nothing; but at thy word I will let down the net. (6)And having done this, they inclosed a great mult.i.tude of fishes; and their net began to break.

(7)And they beckoned to their partners in the other s.h.i.+p, to come and help them. And they came, and filled both the s.h.i.+ps, so that they began to sink. (8)And Simon Peter, seeing it, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying: Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

(9)For astonishment had seized him, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken; (10)and likewise also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.

And Jesus said to Simon: Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men. (11)And having brought their s.h.i.+ps to land, they forsook all, and followed him.

(12)And it came to pa.s.s, when he was in one of the cities, that there was a man full of leprosy. And seeing Jesus he fell on his face, and besought him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst cleanse me.