Book of Common Prayer

¹¹ For this is the message that you heard from the beginning: that you should love one another – ¹² not like Cain, who was of the wicked one and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s good.  ¹³ Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we are translated from death to life because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother, abides in death. ¹⁵ Whosoever hates his brother is a man-slayer. And you know that no man-slayer has eternal life abiding in him.

¹⁶ By this we perceive love: that he gave his life for us. And therefore we also ought to give our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ Whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?

¹⁸ My babes, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Jesus is led into the wilderness and fasts all the time of his temptation. He overcomes the devil, and goes into Galilee to preach. At Nazareth the Jews despise him. In Capernaum the devils recognize and identify him, he enters Peter’s house and heals his mother-in-law, and does great miracles.

4 Jesus, then full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was carried by the Spirit ² into the wilderness, and was for forty days tempted by the devil. And during those days he ate nothing. And when they were ended, he was afterwards hungered. ³ And the devil said to him, If you are the Son of God, command this stone to be made bread. ⁴ And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written: Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

⁵ And the devil took him up into a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, even in the twinkling of an eye. ⁶ And the devil said to him, All this power I will give you, every whit, and the glory of these kingdoms. For it has been delivered to me, and to whomever I wish, I give it. ⁷ If you therefore will worship me, they shall all be yours.

⁸ Jesus answered him and said, Away from me, Satan! For it is written: You shall honour the Lord your God, and him only serve.

⁹ And the devil carried him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here. ¹⁰ For it is written: He will give his angels charge over you, to keep you, ¹¹ and with their hands they will hold you up so that you do not dash your foot against a stone.

¹² Jesus answered and said to him, It is said: You shall not tempt the Lord your God.

¹³ And as soon as the devil had ended all his temptations, he departed from him for a season.