1    ^noteAnd Iesvs ful of the Holy Ghost, returned from Iordan, and vvas driuen in the spirit into the desert,

2    ^notefourtie daies, and vvas tempted of the deuil. And he did eate nothing in those daies: and vvhen they vvere ended, he vvas an hungred.

3   And the Deuil said to him, If thou be the sonne of God, say to this stone that it be made bread.

4   And Iesvs made ansvver vnto him, It is vvritten, That not in bread alone shal man liue, but in euery vvord of God. ^note

5   And the Deuil brought him into an high mountaine, and shevved him al the kingdoms of the vvhole vvorld in a moment of time:

6   and he said to him, To thee vvil I giue this vvhole povver, and the glorie of them: for to me they are deliuered, and to vvhom I vvil, I doe giue them.

7   Thou therfore if thou vvilt adore before me, they shal al be thine.

8   And Iesvs ansvvering said to him, It is vvritten, ^note Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou ^note serue. ^note

9   And he brought him into Hierusalem, and set him vpon the pinnacle of the temple: and he said to him, If thou be the sonne of God, cast thy self from hence dovvnevvard.

10   For ^note it is vvritten, that He hath giuen his Angels

charge of thee, that they preserue thee: ^note

11   and that in their hands they shal beare thee vp, lest perhaps thou knocke thy foote against a stone.

12   And Iesvs ansvvering said to him, It is said, Thou shal not tempt the Lord thy God. ^note

13   And al the tentation being ended, the Deuil09Q0687 departed from him vntil a time.

14    ^{note note}And Iesvs returned in the force of the spirit into Galilee, and the same vvent forth through the vvhole countrie of him.

15   And he taught in their synagogues, and vvas magnified of al.

16    ^noteAnd he came to Nazareth vvhere he vvas brought vp: and he entred ^note according to his custom on the Sabboth day into the synagogue: and he rose vp to reade.

17   And the booke of Esay the Prophet vvas deliuered vnto him. And as he vnfolded the booke, he found the place vvhere it vvas vvritten,

18   The Spirit of the Lord vpon me, for vvhich he anointed me, to euangelize vnto the poore he sent me, to heale the contrite of hart,

19   to preach to the captiues remission, and sight to the blinde, to dimisse the bruised vnto remissi&obar;, to preach the acceptable yere of the Lord, and the day of retribution. ^note

20   And vvhen he had folded the booke, he rendred it to the minister, and sate dovvne. And the eies of al in the synagogue vvere bent vpon him.

21   And he began to say vnto them: That this day is fulfilled this scripture in your eares.

22   And al gaue testimonie to him: and they ^note marueled in the vvordes of grace that proceded from his mouth, and they said, Is not this Iosephs sonne?

23   And he said to them, Certes you vvil say to me this similitude, Physicion, cure they self: as great things as vve haue heard09Q0688 done in Capharnaum, doe also here in thy countrie. ^note

24   And he said, Amen I say to you, that no Prophet is accepted in his ovvne countrie.

25   In truth I say to you, ^note there vvere many vvidovves in the daies of Elias in Israel, vvhen the heauen vvas shut three yeres and six moneths, vvhen there vvas a great famine made in the vvhole earth:

26   and to none of them vvas Elias sent, but into Sarepta of Sidon, to a vvidovv vvoman.

27    ^noteAnd there vvere many lepers in Israel vnder Elisæus the Prophet: and none of them vvas made cleane but Naam&abar; the Syrian.

28   And al in the synagogue vvere filled vvith anger, hearing these things.

29   And they rose, and cast him out of the citie: and they brought him to the edge of the hil, vvherevpon their citie vvas built, that they might throvv him dovvne headlong.

30   But he09Q0689 passing through the middes of them, vvent his vvay. &cross4;

31    ^noteAnd he vvent dovvne into Capharnaum a citie of Galilee: and there he taught them on the Sabboths.

32   And they vvere astonied at his doctrine: because his talke vvas in povver.

33   And in the synagogue there vvas a man hauing an vncleane Diuel, and he cried out vvith a loud voice,

34   saying, Let be, vvhat to vs and thee Iesvs of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy vs? I know thee vvho thou art, the Sainct of God.

35   And Iesvs rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, & goe out of him. And vvhen the Deuil had throvven him into the middes, he vvent out of him, and hurted him nothing.

36   And there came feare vpon al, and they talked together one vvith an other, saying, Vvhat vvord is this, that in povver and vertue he commaundeth the vncleane spirits, and they goe out?

37   And the fame of him vvas published into euery place of the countrie.

38    ^noteAnd Iesvs rising vp out of the synagogue, entred into Simons house. ^noteAnd09Q0690 Simons vviues mother vvas holden vvith a great feuer: and they besought him for her.

39   And standing ouer her, he commaunded the feuer, and it left her. And incontinent rising, she ministred to them.

40   And vvhen the sunne vvas dovvne, al that had diseased of sundrie maladies, brought them to him. But he imposing hands vpon euery one, cured them.

41   And Deuils vvent out from many, crying and saying, That thou art the sonne of God. And rebuking them he suffred them not to speake, that they knevv he vvas Christ.

42   And vvhen it vvas day, going forth he vvent into a desert place: and the multitudes sought him, and came euen vnto him: and they held him that he should not depart from them.

43   To vvhom he said, That to other cities also must I euangelize the kingdom of God: because therfore I vvas sent.

44   And he vvas preaching in the synagogs of Galilee. &cross4;

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