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¹ AndChrist, being carried away (as it were out of the world) into the desert, comes suddenly as if from heaven, having fasted for forty days and overcoming Satan three times, and thus begins his office.Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

² And was there fourtie dayes tempted of the deuil, & in those dayes he did eate nothing: but when they were ended, he afterward was hungry.

³ Christ, being tempted by Satan, first to distrust in God, secondly to the desire of riches and honour, and lastly to a vain confidence in himself, overcomes him three times by the word of God.And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

⁴ But Iesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not liue by bread only, but by euery word of God.

⁵ Then the deuill tooke him vp into an high mountaine, and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world, in the twinkeling of an eye.

⁶ And the devil said unto him, All thisBy this word «power» are meant the kingdoms themselves which have the power: and so this is said using the figure of speech metonymy.power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that isThis is surely so, for he is prince of the world, but not absolutely, and is the sovereign of it only by permission and request, and therefore he does not truly say that he can give it to whom he will.delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

⁷ If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall beOut of a high place, from which would be seen a good and first-class country, and thus the devil showed him all countries.thine.

⁸ But Iesus answered him, and saide, Hence from mee, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God, and him alone thou shalt serue.

⁹ Then hee brought him to Hierusalem, and set him on a pinacle of the Temple, and said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe from hence,

¹⁰ For it is written, That hee will giue his Angels charge ouer thee to keepe thee:

¹¹ And with their handes they shall lift thee vp, least at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.

¹² And Iesus answered, and said vnto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

¹³ And when the deuil had ended all the tentation, he departed from him for a litle season.

¹⁴ And Iesus returned by the power of the spirite into Galile: and there went a fame of him throughout all the region round about.

¹⁵ For he taught in their Synagogues, and was honoured of all men.

¹⁶ Who Christ is and for what reason he came he shows from the prophet Isaiah.And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

¹⁷ And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he hadTheir books in those days were rolled up as scrolls upon a ruler: and so Christ unrolled or unfolded it, which is here called «opened».opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lorde is vpon mee, because he hath anoynted me, that I should preach the Gospel to the poore: he hath sent mee, that I should heale the broken hearted, that I should preach deliuerance to the captiues, and recouering of sight to the blinde, that I should set at libertie them that are bruised:

¹⁹ And that I should preache the acceptable yeere of the Lord.

²⁰ And hee closed the booke, and gaue it againe to the minister, and sate downe: and the eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastened on him.

²¹ Then he began to say vnto them, This day is the Scripture fulfilled in your eares.

²² Familiarity causes Christ to be condemned and therefore he often goes to strangers.And allApproved those things which he spoke with common consent and voice: for this word «witness» signifies in this place (and many others) «to allow and approve a thing with open confession».bare him witness, andPresent at this meeting of the scriptures were not only the learned, but also the common people: and besides that, their mother tongue was used, for how else could the people have wondered? Paul appointed the same manner for doing things in the Church at Corinth; (1Co. 14:1-40).wondered at theWords full of the mighty power of God, which appeared in all his doings, and as well allured men marvellously unto him; see (Psa_45:2), «grace is poured into thy lips».gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

²³ Then he said vnto them, Ye will surely say vnto mee this prouerbe, Physician, heale thy selfe: whatsoeuer we haue heard done in Capernaum, doe it here likewise in thine owne countrey.

²⁴ And he saide, Verely I say vnto you, No Prophet is accepted in his owne countrey.

²⁵ But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all theLand of Israel; {{See Mar_15:33}}.land;

²⁶ But vnto none of them was Elias sent, saue into Sarepta, a citie of Sidon, vnto a certaine widowe.

²⁷ Also many lepers were in Israel, in the time of Eliseus the Prophet: yet none of them was made cleane, sauing Naaman the Syrian.

²⁸ The more sharply the world is rebuked the more it openly rages: but the life of the godly is not always subject to the desires of the wicked.And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

²⁹ And rose vp, and thrust him out of the citie, and led him vnto the edge of the hil, whereon their citie was built, to cast him downe headlong.

³⁰ But he passed through the middes of them, and went his way,

³¹ And came downe into Capernaum a citie of Galile, and there taught them on the Sabbath dayes.

³² And they were astonied at his doctrine: for his worde was with authoritie.

³³ And in the Synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an vncleane deuill, which cryed with a loude voyce,

³⁴ Christ astonishes not only men, be they ever so stupid, but even the demons as well, whether or not they want to be.Saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee, [thou] Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.

³⁵ And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Holde thy peace, and come out of him. Then the deuill throwing him in the middes of them, came out of him, and hurt him nothing at all.

³⁶ So feare came on them all, and they spake among themselues, saying, What thing is this: for with authoritie and power he commaundeth the foule spirits, and they come out?

³⁷ And ye fame of him spred abroad throughout all the places of the countrey round about.

³⁸ In that Christ heals the diseases of the body with only his word, he proves that he is God Almighty, sent for man's salvation.And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.

³⁹ Then he stoode ouer her, and rebuked the feuer, and it left her, and immediatly she arose, and ministred vnto them.

⁴⁰ Now at the sunne setting, all they that had sicke folkes of diuers diseases, brought them vnto him, and he layd his hands on euery one of them, and healed them.

⁴¹ Satan, who is a continual enemy of the truth, ought not to be heard, not even when he speaks the truth.And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking [them] suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.

⁴² No zealous response on the part of the people ought to hinder us in the race that God has appointed unto us.And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.

⁴³ But he sayd vnto them, Surely I must also preach the kingdome of God to other cities: for therefore am I sent.

⁴⁴ And hee preached in the Synagogues of Galile.