¹⁰ Then Jesus *said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘^(A)You shall worship the Lord your God, and ^[a]serve Him only.’” ¹¹ Then the devil *left Him; and behold, ^(B)angels came and began to minister to Him.

Jesus Begins His Ministry

¹² Now when Jesus heard that ^(C)John had been taken into custody, ^(D)He withdrew into Galilee; ¹³ and leaving Nazareth, He came and ^(E)settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali. ¹⁴ This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet:

^17 (H)From that time Jesus began to ^[d]preach and say, “^(I)Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

The First Disciples

^18 (J)Now as Jesus was walking by ^(K)the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, ^(L)Simon who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ And He *said to them, “^[e]Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” ²⁰ Immediately they left their nets and followed Him. ²¹ Going on from there He saw two other brothers, ^[f](M)James the son of Zebedee, and ^[g]John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them. ²² Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.

Ministry in Galilee

²³ Jesus was going ^(N)throughout all Galilee, ^(O)teaching in their synagogues and ^(P)proclaiming the ^[h]gospel of the kingdom, and ^(Q)healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.

²⁴ The news about Him spread ^(R)throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, ^(S)demoniacs, ^[i](T)epileptics, ^(U)paralytics; and He healed them. ²⁵ Large crowds ^(V)followed Him from Galilee and ^(W)the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from ^(X)beyond the Jordan.

^8 (A)Be of sober spirit, ^(B)be on the alert. Your adversary, ^(C)the devil, prowls around like a roaring ^(D)lion, seeking someone to devour.

² And he laid hold of the ^(A)dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and ^(B)bound him for a thousand years; ³ and he threw him into the ^(C)abyss, and shut it and ^(D)sealed it over him, so that he would ^(E)not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

Satan Freed, Doomed

⁷ When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be ^(A)released from his prison, ⁸ and will come out to ^(B)deceive the nations which are in the ^(C)four corners of the earth, ^(D)Gog and Magog, to ^(E)gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the ^(F)sand of the ^[a]seashore. ⁹ And they ^(G)came up on the ^[b]broad plain of the earth and surrounded the ^(H)camp of the ^[c]saints and the ^(I)beloved city, and ^(J)fire came down from heaven and devoured them. ¹⁰ And ^(K)the devil who ^(L)deceived them was thrown into the ^(M)lake of fire and ^[d]brimstone, where the ^(N)beast and the ^(O)false prophet are also; and they will be ^(P)tormented day and night forever and ever.