4:1Then was Jesus led up of
the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
(4:1) "Tempted of the devil"
Jesus is led by the Spirit of God to be tempted by the devil. Which, at least according to
James 1:13 ("God cannot be tempted with evil."), means that Jesus is not
God.
4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
4:3
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God,
command that these stones be made bread.
4:4
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
4:5
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a
pinnacle of the temple,
4:6
And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give
his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee
up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
(4:6-10) "For it is written"
The devil correctly quotes scripture (Ps.91:11-12), while Jesus misquotes Deuteronomy by
adding "only" to Dt.6:13.
(4:8) "An exceeding hight mountain"
The devil kidnaps Jesus and takes him up to
the top of the temple, and then to the top of "an exceeding high
mountain," high enough to see "all the kingdoms of the world." I
guess the earth was flat in those days.
(4:12, 18-19) "When Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into
Galilee ... And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called
Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were
fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Which came first: the calling of Peter and Andrew or the imprisonment of
John the Baptist?
4:18And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called
Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were
fishers.
4:19And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
4:20
And they straightway left their nets, and 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 immediately left the ship and their 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
all manner of disease among the people.
4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick
people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which
were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that
had the palsy; and he healed them.
4:25
And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from
Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.