1Then Jesus was led of a spirit into desert, to be tempted of the fiend, (or of the devil). (Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert, to be tested by the Devil.) 2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he hungered. 3And the tempter came nigh (And the Tester came near), and said to him, If thou be God's Son [If thou art the Son of God], say that these stones be made (into) loaves. 4Which answered, and said to him, It is written, Not only in bread liveth man, but in each word that cometh forth of God's mouth. [The which answering said to him, It is written, A man liveth not in bread alone, but in every word that cometh forth from the mouth of God.]

5Then the fiend, (or the devil), took him into the holy city, and setted him on the pinnacle of the temple,

6and said to him, If thou art God's Son, send thee adown [If thou art the Son of God, send thee down]; for it is written, That to his angels he commanded of thee, and they shall take thee in (their) hands, lest peradventure thou hurt thy foot at a stone.

7Again Jesus said to him, It is written, Thou shalt not tempt thy Lord God [Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God] (Thou shalt not test the Lord thy God).

8Again the fiend, (or the devil), took him [up] into a full high hill, and showed to him all the realms of the world, and the joy, (or the glory), of them; (And the Devil took him up onto a very high hill, or onto a mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;) 9and said to him, All these I shall give to thee, if thou fall down and worship me. 10Then Jesus said to him, Go, Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship thy Lord God [Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God], and to him alone thou shalt serve. 11Then the fiend, (or the devil), left him; and lo! angels came nigh, and served to him (and ministered to him).

12But when Jesus had heard that John was taken (captive), he went into Galilee. 13And he left the city of Nazareth, and came, and dwelt in the city of Capernaum, beside the sea, in the coasts of Zabulon and Nephthalim, 14that it should be fulfilled, that was said by Esaias, the prophet, saying, (so that it would be fulfilled, what was said by the prophet Isaiah, saying),

15The land of Zabulon and the land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea over (the) Jordan (River), of Galilee of heathen men (in Galilee of the Gentiles),

16the people that walked, (or that dwelt), in darknesses saw (a) great light (the people who lived in darkness saw a great light), and while men sat in the country of [the] shadow of death, light arose to them.

17From that time Jesus began to preach, and [to] say, Do ye penance, for the kingdom of heavens shall come nigh [Do ye penance, for the realm of heaven hath nighed] (Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near).

18And Jesus walked beside the sea of Galilee, and saw two brethren, Simon, that is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting nets into the sea; for they were fishers. (And Jesus walked beside Lake Galilee, and saw two brothers, Simon, that is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, throwing their nets into the lake; for they were fishermen.) 19And he said to them, Come ye after me, and I shall make you to be made fishers of men. 20And anon they left their nets, and (pur)sued him. (And at once they left their nets, and followed him.) 21And he went forth from that place, and saw twain other brethren, James of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in a ship with Zebedee, their father, amending their nets, and he called them. 22And anon they left the nets and the father, and (pur)sued him. (And at once they left their nets and their father, and followed him.)

23And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in the synagogues of them, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every languor, (or all sorrow, or ache), and each sickness among the people. (And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel or the Good News, of the Kingdom, and healing every languor, or every ache and sorrow, and every sickness among the people.)

24And his fame went into all (of) Syria; and they brought to him all that were at mal-ease, and that were taken with diverse languors, (or sores), and torments, and them that had fiends, (or devils) (and those who had demons), and lunatic men, and men (sick) in [the] palsy, and he healed them. 25And there (pur)sued him much people of Galilee, and of Decapolis, and of Jerusalem, and of Judaea, and of beyond (the) Jordan. (And many people followed him from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from over the Jordan River.)