Christ's fasting and temptation. He is persecuted in Nazareth. His miracles in Capharnaum.
4:1. And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led the by the spirit into the desert,
4:2. 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.
4:3. And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread.
4:4. And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God.
4:5. And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
4:6. 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.
4:7. If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be thine.
4:8. And Jesus answering said to him. It is written: Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
4:9. 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.