the people.


THE BAPTISM OF JESUS.

And it came to pass in those days, when all the people were baptized,
that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to
be baptized of him.

But John would have hindered him, saying, "I have need to be baptized
of thee, and comest thou to me?"

But Jesus answering said unto him, "Suffer it now: for thus it
becometh us to fulfil all righteousness."

Then he suffereth him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up
straightway from the water; and lo, the heavens were opened unto him,
and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon
him; and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, "This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased."


THE TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS.

Then straightway was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to
be tempted of the devil, and he was with the wild beasts, and did eat
nothing in those days. And when he had fasted forty days and forty
nights, he afterward hungered.

And the tempter came and said unto him, "If thou art the Son of God,