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But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned.

Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.

And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali:

If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.

Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.

But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.

Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee;

And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.

Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.

Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,

Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;

And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship.

And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.

Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan;

Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?

Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:

And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.

And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

And they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying openly that they had done wrong.

And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove;

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.

But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.

For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.