¹ Then was Jesus led·​·away^◦ into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil.

² And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He afterwards hungered.

³ And when the tempter came to Him, he said^◦, If Thou be the Son of God, say^◦ that^◦ these stones be·​·made^◦ bread.

⁴ But^◦ He answering said^◦, It is written, Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every saying that goes·​·out through the mouth of God.^*

⁵ Then the Devil takes Him into the holy city, and stands Him on a pinnacle of the temple;

⁶ and says to Him, If Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down; for^◦ it is written that He shall command His angels concerning Thee, and in^▫ their hands they shall take· Thee ·up, lest Thou ever dash Thy foot against a stone.^*

⁷ Jesus declared^◦ to him, Again, it is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.^*

⁸ Again, the Devil takes Him to^◦ an exceedingly high mountain, and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;

⁹ and says to Him, All these·​·things I will give Thee, if, falling·​·down, Thou wilt worship me.

¹⁰ Then says Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan; for^◦ it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve^▵.^*

¹¹ Then the Devil leaves Him, and behold^◦, angels came and ministered to Him.

¹² And^◦ Jesus, having heard that John was delivered·​·up into custody, departed into Galilee;

¹³ and leaving^◦ Nazareth, He came and dwelt in^◦ Capernaum, which is on the seacoast, in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali,

¹⁴ that^◦ it might be fulfilled which was declared by Isaiah the prophet, saying,

¹⁵ The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;

¹⁶ the people who sat in darkness saw^◦ great light; and to them who sat in the country and shadow of death, light has risen^◦.^*

¹⁷ From then Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent ye, for^◦ the kingdom of the heavens is·​·near.

¹⁸ And^◦ Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw^◦ two brothers, Simon called^▵ Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net^◦ into the sea; for^◦ they were fishers.

¹⁹ And He says to them, Come^▵ after^◦ Me, and I will make you fishers of men.

²⁰ And^◦ straightway they left their nets and followed Him.

²¹ And advancing from thence, He saw^◦ two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending^* their nets; and He called them.

²² And^◦ straightway, leaving the ship and their father, they followed Him.

²³ And Jesus went·​·around all^◦ Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every malady and every disease in the people.

²⁴ And the report^◦ of Him went^▵ into the whole of Syria; and they brought·​·to Him all who were·​·ill, having different diseases and torments besetting them, and the demon-possessed, and the lunatics, and those sick·​·of·​·the·​·palsy; and He cured them.

²⁵ And many crowds followed Him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from across the Jordan.

¹ "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

² Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

³ You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

⁵ I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

⁶ If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

⁷ If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

⁸ "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

⁹ Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.

¹¹ I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

¹² "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

¹⁶ You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

¹⁷ "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

²¹ But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³ He who hates me, hates my Father also.

²⁴ If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

²⁵ But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

²⁶ "When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

²⁷ You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.