Gospel Reading for Today

From The Second Testament

Yēsous tested

Matthew 4:1       Then Yēsous was led into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tested by the Accuser. 2 Fasting forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

3 Coming, the testing one said to him, “If you are God’s royal Son, tell these stones to become breads.” 4 Responding, he said, “It’s written:  The human will live not on only bread  but on every utterance journeying out through God’s mouth.”

5 Then the Accuser takes him with him to the devoted city and stood him on the temple’s turret 6 and says to him, “If you are God’s royal Son, toss yourself down for It’s written that, He will command his envoys about you and they will lift you in their hands, so you will not stub your foot on a stone.” 7 Yēsous said to him: “Again It’s written,  You will not test out the Lord your God.”

8 Again the Accuser takes him to an exceedingly high mountain and exhibits to him all the Kosmos’ empires of the Kosmos and their splendor 9 and said to him, “I will give you all these if, falling, you bow down to me.” 10 Then Yēsous says to him, “Go away!, Satanas for It’s written, You will bow down to the Lord God and you will venerate only him.”

11 Then the Accuser releases him, and Look! Envoys came and were serving him.