The Life of Jesus

added also this to all, that he shut up John in the prison.

And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,

and the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily appearance, as if a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, saying, `Thou art My Son--the Beloved, in thee I did delight.'

And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, son of Joseph,

the son of Eli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna, the son of Joseph,

the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Naum, the son of Esli,

the son of Naggai, the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semei, the son of Joseph, the son of Juda,

the son of Joanna, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,

the son of Neri, the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,

the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat,

the son of Levi, the son of Simeon, the son of Juda, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,

the son of Melea, the son of Mainan, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan,

the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Booz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram, the son of Esrom, the son of Pharez,

the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber,

the son of Salah, the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel,

the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

and the Devil said to him, `If Son thou art of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.'

And Jesus answered him, saying, `It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.'

And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

and the Devil said to him, `To thee I will give all this authority, and their glory, because to me it hath been delivered, and to whomsoever I will, I do give it;