Introducing the Unitarian Standard Version Bible
References Used in the Unitarian Standard Version
Read Matthew 1 and 2 here...Read Matthew 3 here
Textual changes are underlined.
1 Then was Jesus led up of the
spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And
when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward
hungered. 3 And the tempter came and said unto him, "If thou art
the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."4 But he
answered and said, "It is written, Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth through the mouth of
God."5 Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set
him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and saith unto him, "If
thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written,
He shall give his angels charge concerning thee:
and,
On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest haply thou dash thy
foot against a stone."
7 Jesus said unto him, "Again it is written,
'Thou shalt not tempt Jehovah thy God(a).'"
8 Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain,
and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of
them; 9 and he said unto him, "All these things will I give
thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me."(b)(c) 10
Then saith Jesus unto him, "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is
written, 'Thou shalt worship(d) Jehovah(e) thy
God, and him only shalt thou serve.(f)'" 11 Then
the devil leaveth him; and behold, angels came and ministered
unto him.
12 Now when he heard that John was delivered
up, he withdrew into Galilee; 13 and leaving Nazareth, he came
and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the borders of
Zebulun and Naphtali: 14 that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
15 "The land of Zebulun and the land of
Naphtali,
Toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
16 The people that sat in darkness
saw a great light,
And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, To them
did light spring up."
17 From that time began Jesus to preach, and
to say, "Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 18 As
he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon
who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into
the sea; for they were fishers. 19 And he saith unto them, "Come
ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men." 20 And they
straightway left the nets, and followed him. 21 And going on
from thence he saw two other brethren, James the [son] of
Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their
father, mending their nets; and he called them. 22 And they
straightway left the boat and their father, and followed him.
23 And he went about in all Galilee,
teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the
kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of
sickness among the people. 24 And the report of him went forth
into all Syria: and they brought unto him all that were sick,
holden with various diseases and torments, and those
possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied; and he healed
them. 25 And there followed him great multitudes from Galilee
and Decapolis (Ten Cities) and Jerusalem and Judaea and from the
other side of the Jordan.
Footnotes
(a) Jehovah, from Deut. 6:16
- "Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in
Massah." (see Darby & Bullinger). "Thou shalt not tempt - To expose myself to any danger naturally destructive, with the vain presumption that God will protect and defend me from the ruinous consequences of my imprudent conduct, is to tempt God." Adam Clarke
(b) "As if he had said, 'The whole of this land is now
under my government; do me homage for it, and I will deliver it
into thy hand.'” Adam Clarke
(c) "He [our Saviour] was so entirely devoted to his
Father's business, that half the readers of his life do not
imagine, that he had any of his own. But we must not forget,
that he was a man, with all the feelings, and exposed to all the
temptations, of men. He might have formed the scheme of being a
Napoleon, if he had chosen. The world was before him. He had the
opportunity; and, so far as we can understand the mysterious
description of his temptation, he was urged to make the attempt.
... Christians seem to think, that his bright example is only,
to a very limited extent, an example for them. But we must
remember that Jesus Christ was a man. His powers were human
powers; his feelings were human feelings; and his example is
strictly and exactly an example for all the world." — Jacob
ABBOTT: The Corner-stone, p. 35 (JW)
(d) SOU PROSKUNHSEIS, thou shalt worship the Lord thy
God. "The cases in which it [proskuneo] is to be understood of
religious adoration, and those in which it denotes nothing but
civil homage, can be discriminated only by attending to the
circumstances of each. This word occurs sixty times in the New
Testament. Of these there are two, which, without controversy,
denotes the customary act of civil homage, Matt. 18:26. Rev.
3:9; fifteen refer to idolatrous rites, three are used of
mistaken and disapproved homage to creatures, about twenty-five
clearly and undeniably respect the worship due to the Most High
God, and the remaining number relate to acts of homage paid to
Jesus Christ." — DR. J. P. Smith: Script. Test. vol. ii. pp.
257–8. (JW)
(e) Jehovah, from Deut. 6:13 - "Thou shalt
fear Jehovah thy God; and him shalt thou serve, and shalt swear
by his name." (see Darby)
(f) KAI AUTW MONW LATREUSEIS, and him
only shalt thou serve. "The word serve signifieth all worship
due to God, both inward and outward. — SIR EDWARD LEIGH. Shalt
thou serve, or pay religious veneration, latreuseis.
This is Mr. Wakefield's translation, and, I think, cannot be
mended." — Dr. Adam CLARKE. (JW)
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