I baptise you in water, in token of repentance, but he that cometh
after me, is mightier than I: whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He
shall baptise you with the holy ghost, and with fire, which hath also
his fan in his hand, and will purge his flour, and gather the wheat
into his garner, and will burn the chaff with everlasting fire.
Then came Iesus from Galilee into Iordan to Ihon, for to be baptised of
him. But Ihon forbade him saying: I ought to be baptised of thee: and
comest thou too me? Iesus answered and said to him, let it be so now.
For thus it becometh us, to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered
him. And Iesus as soon as he was baptised, came straight out of the
water: And lo heaven was open unto him: and he saw the spirit of God
descend like a dove, and light upon him. And lo there came a voice from
heaven saying: this is that my dear son, in whom is my delight.
The fourth Chapter.
Then was Iesus led away of the spirit in to a desert, to be tempted of
the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, at the
last he was an hungered. Then came until him the tempter, and said: if
thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread. He
answered and said: it is written, man shall not live only by bread, But
by every word that proceedeth out of the mought of God.
Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him on a
pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him: if thou be the son of God,
cast thyself down. For it is written, he shall give his angels charge
over thee, and with their hands they shall stey thee up, that thou
dash not thy foot against a stone. Iesus said to him, it is written
also: thou shalt not tempt thy lord God.
The devil took him up again and led him into an exceeding high
mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the beauty
of them, and said unto him: all these will I give thee, if thou wilt
fall down and worship me. Then said Iesus unto him, avoid Satan. For it
is written, thou shalt worship thy lord God, and him only, shalt thou
serve.
Then the devil left him, and lo the angels came and ministered unto
him.
When Iesus had heard that Ihon was taken, he departed into Galilee, and
left Nazareth, and went and dwelt in Capernaum, which is a city upon
the sea, in the coasts of Zabulon and Nephthalim, to fulfil that which
was spoken by Isay the prophet, saying: Behold the land of Zabulon and
Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond Iordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
the people which sat in darkness, saw great light. And to them which
sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprong.
From that time Iesus began to preach, and to say: Repent, for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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