Scriptures

New Living Translation (NLT)

Matthew 3
¹² He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire.”
¹³ Then Jesus went from Galilee to the Jordan River to be baptized by John.
¹⁴ But John tried to talk him out of it. “I am the one who needs to be baptized by you,” he said, “so why are you coming to me?”
¹⁵ But Jesus said, “It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires.” So John agreed to baptize him.
¹⁶ After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him.
¹⁷ And a voice from heaven said, “This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy.”
Matthew 4
¹ Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil.
² For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.
³ During that time the devil came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”
⁴ But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city, Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple,