Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ But what does the scripture say? The word is near you, even in your mouth and in your heart. This word is the word of faith that we preach. ⁹ For if you acknowledge with your mouth that Jesus is the Lord, and believe with your heart that God raised him up from death, you will be safe. ¹⁰ For the belief of the heart justifies, and to acknowledge with the mouth makes a man safe. ¹¹ For the scripture says: Whoever believes on him, will not be ashamed.

¹² There is no difference between the Jews and the Gentiles. For there is one Lord over all, who richly blesses all who call on him. ¹³ For: Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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.