Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St Matthew 4:5-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

5. Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,

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.

7. Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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,

9. And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou wilt adore me.

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.

11. Then the devil left him; and behold angels came and ministered to him.

12. And when Jesus had heard that John was delivered up, he retired into Galilee:

13. And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim;

14. That it might be fulfilled which was said by Isaias the prophet:

15. Land of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles:

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.