And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led by the spirit into the desert,

For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread.

And Jesus answered him: It is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God.

And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And he said to him: To thee will I give all this power and the glory of them. For to me they are delivered: and to whom I will, I give them.

If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be thine.

And Jesus answering said to him. It is written: Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from hence.

For it is written that He hath given his angels charge over thee that they keep thee.

And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.

And Jesus answering, said to him: It is said: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

And all the temptation being ended, the devil departed from him for a time.

And Jesus returned in the power of the spirit, into Galilee: and the fame of him went out through the whole country.

And he taught in their synagogues and was magnified by all.

And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and he went into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath day: and he rose up to read.

And the book of Isaias the prophet was delivered unto him. And as he unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written:

The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,

To preach deliverance to the captives and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of reward.

And when he had folded the book, he restored it to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

And he began to say to them: This day is fulfilled this scripture in your ears.

And all gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son of Joseph?

And he said to them: Doubtless you will say to me this similitude: Physician, heal thyself. As great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy own country.

And he said: Amen I say to you that no prophet is accepted in his own country.

In truth I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the earth.

And to none of them was Elias sent, but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman.

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.

And all they in the synagogue, hearing these things, were filled with anger.

And they rose up and thrust him out of the city: and they brought him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.

But he passing through the midst of them, went his way.

And he went down into Capharnaum, a city of Galilee: and there he taught them on the sabbath days.

And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his speech was with power.

And in the synagogue there was a man who had an unclean devil: and he cried out with a loud voice,

Saying: Let us alone. What have we to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God.

And Jesus rebuked him, saying: Hold thy peace and go out of him. And when the devil had thrown him into the midst, he went out of him and hurt him not at all.

And there came fear upon all; and they talked among themselves, saying: What word is this, for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they go out?

And the fame of him was published into every place of the country.

And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever: and they besought him for her.

And standing over her, he commanded the fever: and it left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to them.

And when the sun was down, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them to him. But he, laying his hands on every one of them, healed them.

And devils went out from many, crying out and saying: Thou art the son of God. And rebuking them he suffered them not to speak; for they knew that he was Christ.

And when it was day, going out he went into a desert place: and the multitudes sought him, and came unto him. And they stayed him that he should not depart from them.

To whom he said: To other cities also I must preach the kingdom of God: for therefore am I sent.

And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth,

And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets.

And going into one of the ships that was Simon’s, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And sitting, he taught the multitudes out of the ship.

Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught.

And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have laboured all the night and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net.

And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude of fishes: and their net broke.

And they beckoned to their partners that were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the ships, so that they were almost sinking.

Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying: Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

For he was wholly astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken.

And so were also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were Simon’s partners. And Jesus saith to Simon: Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

And having brought their ships to land, leaving all things, they followed him.

And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy who, seeing Jesus and falling on his face, besought him saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

And stretching forth his hand, he touched him, saying: I will. Be thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.

And he charged him that he should tell no man, but: Go, shew thyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

But the fame of him went abroad the more: and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

And he retired into the desert; and prayed.

And it came to pass on a certain day, as he sat teaching, that there were also Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, that were come out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was to heal them.

And behold, men brought in a bed a man who had the palsy: and they sought means to bring him in and to lay him before him.

And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in, because of the multitude, they went up upon the roof and let him down through the tiles with his bed into the midst before Jesus.

Whose faith when he saw, he said: Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering he said to them: What is it you think in your hearts?

Which is easier to say: Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say: Arise and walk?

But that you may know that the Son of man hath the power on earth to forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy), I say to thee, Arise, take up thy bed and go into thy house.

And immediately rising up before them, he took up the bed on which he lay: and he went away to his own house, glorifying God.

And all were astonished: and they glorified God. And they were filled with fear, saying: We have seen wonderful things to-day.

And after these things, he went forth and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said to him: Follow me.

And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him.

And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: And there was a great company of publicans and of others that were at table with them.

But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole need not the physician: but they that are sick.

I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.

And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?

To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast whilst the bridegroom is with them?

But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: then shall they fast in those days.

And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment: otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old.

And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles; and it will be spilled and the bottles will be lost.

But new wine must be put into new bottles: and both are preserved.

And no man drinking old hath presently a mind to new: for he saith: The old is better.