Open English Translation MAT Chapter 4

4 Then Yeshua was taken into the wilderness by the spirit, to be tempted by the devil.[ref] 2 As he’d been fasting for forty days (and nights), he was hungry, 3 and the tempter approached him and asked, “If you’re God’s son, command some of these stones to turn into buns.”

4 But Yeshua answered, “It’s written in the scriptures that it’s not just food that a person needs to live, but also all of God’s messages.”[ref]

5 Then the devil took him to Yerushalem, and stood him on the highest point of the temple 6 and told him, “Throw yourself down if you’re God’s son, because it’s written in the scriptures that God will command his messengers to look after you and to carry you in their arms so that you won’t bash your foot on a rock.”[ref]

7 “Yes, but it’s also written,” Yeshua answered, “that you shouldn’t test your God Yahweh.”[ref]

8 Then the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the countries in the world, with all their splendour, 9 then told him, “I’ll give you all of those if you get down on your face in front of me.”

10 “Go away, Satan,” Yeshua replied, “because it’s written in the scriptures that you should worship your God Yahweh and must only serve him.”[ref]

11 Then the devil left him, and God’s messengers came and looked after him.

12 When Yeshua heard that Yohan had been arrested,[ref] he withdrew up to Galilee. 13 Then he moved from Nazaret across to Capernaum beside the lake,[ref] in the regions that had been given to the tribes of Zebulun and Naftali, 14 so that what had been written by the prophet Yeshayah (Isaiah) would come true,

15 ‘Land of Zebulun and land of Naftali,

the way of the sea beyond the Yordan river;

Galilee of the non-Jews.

16 The people sitting in darkness

saw a powerful light,

and those sitting in a land under the shadow of death

had a light rise over them.’[ref]

17 From then onwards, Yeshua started preaching and telling people to turn from their sins because the heavenly kingdom is close.[ref]

18 As Yeshua walked beside Lake Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (later nicknamed ‘Rock’/Peter) and Andrew, throwing a net into the water because they were fishermen. 19 “Come and follow me,” Yeshua told them, “and I’ll make you into fishers of people.” 20 So they left their nets immediately and followed after him.

21 Going on a bit further, he saw two other brothers, Yacob and Yohan, in the boat getting their nets ready along with their father Zebedee, and Yeshua also called the two of them. 22 So they too immediately left the boat and their father, and followed after him.

23 Then Yeshua went around all of Galilee, teaching in their Jewish meeting halls (Grk: synagogues) and announcing the good message about the kingdom, and healing all the people’s diseases and sicknesses,[ref] 24 and the news about this went all the way up to Syria. So they brought all their sick and diseased people to him, as well as those who were suffering or demon-possessed, along with those who had seizures or were paralysed, and Yeshua healed them. 25 Large crowds from Galilee and Decapolis and Yerushalem, and from all of Yudea and even beyond the Yordan River, followed after Yeshua.