Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Matthew 4

^{1 a} By the holie Gost.

^{1 b} To the end that he ouercoming these tentations might get the victorie for vs.

^{1 !} Christ fasteth & is tempted.

^{3 c} Satan wolde haue Christ to distrust God, and his worde and followe other strange and vnlawful meanes.

^{4 d} He meaneth the ordre that God hathe ordeined to mainteine his creatures by.

^{5 /} Or, vane which shewed where the winde stode.

^{5 e} To wit, Jerusalem.

^{6 f} He alledgeth but halfe the sentence to deceiue thereby the rather, and cloke his craftie purpose.

^{7 g} We must not leaue suche lawful meanes as God hathe appointed, to seke others after our owne fantasie.

^{8 h} In a vision.

^{11 !} The Angels minister vnto him.

^{11 i} The worde of God is the sworde of the spirit, wherewith Satan is ouercome.

^{11 k} To comfort him.

^{12 l} And cast in prision by Herode.

^{13 m} For so they called the lake of Gennesareth.

^{15 n} Christ had preached now almost a yere in Judea, and Samaria, and after went to preache in the vppermost Galile, which was out of the bordes of Palestina.

^{16 o} Which was without comfort, hathe receiued consolation.

^{17 !} He beginneth to preache.

^{18 p} God hathe chosen the weake things of the worlde to counfounde the mightie {1 Corin. 1, 27}

^{18 !} He calleth Peter, Andrew, James, and John, and healeth all the sicke.

^{19 q} To drawe them out of the sea of this worlde, wherein they are drowned.

²² We oght to be moste ready to followe Christ, when he calleth, leauing all worldelie respects aparte.

^{23 s} That is, the blessed tidings of forgiuenes of sinnes & reconciliation with God.

^{24 t} So that by healing incurable diseases Christs diuinitie appeared .

^{24 u} They that were mad or sicke at a certeine time of the moone.

^{25 x} It was a countrey wherein was ten cities, as the worde signifieth.