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St Matthew 4:8-21 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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,

9. And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou wilt adore me.

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.

11. Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to him.

12. And when Jesus had heard that John was delivered up, he retired into Galilee:

13. And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim;

14. That it might be fulfilled which was said by Isaias the prophet:

15. Land of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles:

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.

17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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).

19. And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be fishers of men.

20. And they immediately leaving their nets, followed him.

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.

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