AND Jesus full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan, and was driven in the spirit into the desert, ^{2 [a]} forty days, and was tempted of the Devil. And he did eat nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was a hungered. ³And the Devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread. ⁴And Jesus made answer unto him: It is written, That not in bread alone shall man live, but in every word of God. ⁵And the Devil brought him into a high mountain, and showed him all the Kingdoms of the whole world in a moment of time; ⁶and he said to him: To thee will I give this whole power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I do give them. ⁷Thou therefore if thou wilt adore before me, they shall all be thine. ⁸And Jesus answering said to him: It is written, ^[b] Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou ^c serve. ⁹And he brought him into Jerusalem, and set him upon the pinnacle of the Temple; and he said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from hence downward. ¹⁰For ^[c] it is written, that He hath given his Angels charge of thee, that they preserve thee: ¹¹and that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps thou knock thy foot against a stone. ¹²And Jesus answering said to him: It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. ¹³And all the tentation being ended, the Devil • departed from him until a time.

¹⁴ * And Jesus returned in the force of the Spirit into Galilee, and the same went forth through the whole country of him. ¹⁵And he taught in their Synagogues, and was magnified of all.

¹⁶ * And he came to Nazareth where he was brought up: and he entered ^[d] according to his custom on the Sabboth day into the synagogue; and he rose up to read. ¹⁷And the book of Esay the Prophet was delivered unto him. And as he unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written, ¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord upon me, for which he anointed me, to evangelise unto the poor he sent me, to heal the contrite of heart, ¹⁹to preach to the captives remission, and sight to the blind, to dismiss the bruised unto remission, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of retribution. ²⁰And when he had folded the book, he rendered it to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all in the Synagogue were bent upon him. ²¹And he began to say unto them: That this day is fulfilled this scripture in your ears. ²²And all gave testimony to him; and they ^[e] marvelled in the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth, and they said: Is not this Joseph’s son? ²³And he said to them: Certes you will say to me this similitude, Physician, cure thyself: as great things as we have heard • done in Capharnaum, do also here in thy country. ²⁴And he said: Amen I say to you, that no Prophet is accepted in his own country. ²⁵In truth I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when the Heaven was shut three years and six months, when there was a great famine made in the whole earth: ²⁶and to none of them was Elias sent, but into Sarepta of Sidon, to a widow woman. ²⁷ * And there were many lepers in Israel under Eliseus the Prophet; and none of them was made clean but Naaman the Syrian. ²⁸And all in the Synagogue were filled with anger, hearing these things. ²⁹And they rose, and cast him out of the city: and they brought him to the edge of the hill, whereupon their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong. ³⁰But he • passing through the midst of them, went his way.

³¹ * And he went down into Capharnaum a city of Galilee; and there he taught them on the Sabboths. ³²And they were astonished at his doctrine; because his talk was in power. ³³And in the Synagogue there was a man having an unclean Devil, and he cried out with a loud voice. ³⁴Saying: Let be, what to us and thee Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Saint of God. ³⁵And 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 nothing. ³⁶And there came fear upon all, and they talked together one with another, saying: What word is this, that in power and virtue he commandeth the unclean Spirits, and they go out? ³⁷And the fame of him was published into every place of the country.

³⁸And Jesus rising up out of the Synagogue, entered into Simon’s house. And • Simon’s wife’s mother was holden with a great fever; and they besought him for her. ³⁹And standing over her, he commanded the fever, and it left her. And incontinent rising, she ministered to them. ⁴⁰And when the sun was down, all that had diseased of sundry maladies, brought them to him. But he ^[f] imposing hands upon every one, cured them. ⁴¹And Devils went out from many, crying and saying: That thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them he suffered them not to speak, that they knew he was Christ.

⁴²And when it was day, going forth he went into a desert place; and the multitudes sought him, and came even unto him; and they held him that he should not depart from them. ⁴³To whom he said: That to other cities also must I evangelise the Kingdom of God; because therefore I was sent. ⁴⁴And he was preaching in the Synagogues of Galilee.