How do the scriptural replies lead into the Galilean preaching and calls?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Three replies reject the tempter’s proposals; afterward Jesus relocates, preaches, calls two pairs of brothers and heals those brought to him.

Chapter breakdown

Led by the spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil, Jesus fasts forty days and nights and afterward is hungry. The tempter says that if he is God’s Son he should make these stones bread. Jesus answers with what is written: man lives not by bread alone but by every word from God’s mouth. The devil takes him to the holy city’s temple pinnacle and urges him to cast himself down, citing angelic protection lest he strike his foot against stone. Jesus answers with the further written command not to tempt the Lord God. On a very high mountain the devil shows all worldly kingdoms and their glory. The edition’s separate note offers pointing out where each lay and describing its splendor in words, or a vivid representation like a large map. These are alternative explanations, not a supplied probable airy projection.

The devil offers these kingdoms if Jesus falls down in adoration. Jesus orders Satan away and cites worship of the Lord God and service of him alone. The devil leaves; angels come and minister. No specified descent or flight is narrated. Hearing John has been delivered up, Jesus retires to Galilee, leaves Nazareth and dwells in coastal Capharnaum, in Zabulon’s and Nephthalim’s borders. Matthew identifies fulfillment of Isaias’s words about these lands, the sea’s way beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles and great light for those sitting in darkness and death’s shadow. From then Jesus preaches penance because heaven’s kingdom is at hand.

Walking by Galilee’s sea, he sees Simon called Peter and Andrew casting a net, being fishermen. He calls them after him, promising to make them fishers of men. They immediately leave their nets and follow. Further on James son of Zebedee and his brother John are in a ship with their father, mending nets. Called, they immediately leave nets and father and follow. The text records those departures without supplying an assessment of permanent family obligations or a general rule for every follower.

Throughout Galilee Jesus teaches in synagogues, preaches the kingdom’s gospel and heals every manner of sickness and infirmity. His fame spreads throughout Syria. People bring sufferers with various diseases and torments, those possessed by devils, those termed lunatics and those with palsy, and he cures them. These edition terms are retained without modern diagnoses or treatment advice. Many follow from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and beyond Jordan.

The story inside

The temptation includes quoted claims and replies, while the map explanation remains an alternative annotation. After news about John, the Capharnaum residence is linked to Isaias. Specific immediate departures precede the regional account of teaching and healing.

Lessons worth keeping

1
Preserve both alternatives in the kingdoms annotation.
2
Do not modernize historical illness terms into diagnoses.
3
The brothers leave stated nets and father without an invented universal family rule.

Test your recall

Which brothers are mending nets with their father?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

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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.
Lines 110643–110685
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.