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now. For so it
becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered him.

3:16. And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo,
the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God
descending as a dove, and coming upon him.
3:17. And behold a voice from heaven saying: This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased.

Matthew Chapter 4
Christ's fast of forty days: He is tempted. He begins to preach, to call
disciples to him, and to work miracles.
4:1. Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by
the devil.
4:2. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he
was hungry.
4:3. And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God,
command that these stones be made bread.
4:4. Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man
live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
4:5. Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the
pinnacle of the temple,
4:6. And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for
it is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee, and in their
hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a
stone.
4:7. Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord
thy God.
4:8. Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and
shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,

Shewed him, etc. . .That is, pointed out to him where each kingdom lay;
and set forth in words what was most glorious and admirable in each of
them. Or also set before his eyes, as it were in a large map, a lively
representation of all those kingdoms.
4:9. And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou
wilt adore me.
4:10. Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written: The Lord
thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.
4:11. Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to
him.
4:12. And when Jesus had heard that John was delivered up, he retired
into Galilee:
4:13. And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum
on the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and of Nephthalim;
4:14. That it might be fulfilled which was said by Isaias the prophet:
4:15. Land of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea
beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles:
4:16. The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them
that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.
4:17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for
the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
4:18. And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren,
Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into
the sea (for they were fishers).
4:19. And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to
be fishers of men.
4:20. And they immediately leaving their nets, followed him.

4:21. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the
son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their
father, mending their nets: and he called them.
4:22. And they forthwith left their nets and father, and followed him.
4:23. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of
sickness and every infirmity, among the people.
4:24. And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to
him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments,
and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had
the palsy, and he cured them:
4:25. And much people followed him from Galilee, and from Decapolis,
and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

Matthew Chapter 5
Christ's sermon upon the mount. The eight beatitudes.
5:1. And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when
he was set down, his disciples came unto him.
5:2. And opening his mouth he taught them, saying:
5:3. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The poor in spirit. . .That is, the humble; and they whose spirit is not
set upon riches.
5:4. Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.
5:5. Blessed are they that mourn: for they