Genesis 4:8-16 and Matthew 4:23-25 (NIV)

Genesis 4:8-16

8   Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
9   Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”  “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10  The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.
11  Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
12  When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
13  Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is more than I can bear.
14  Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
15  But the LORD said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
16  So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Matthew 4:23-25

23  Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. 

24  News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them. 

25  Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.  

Footnotes:

1. Matthew 4:25 That is, the Ten Cities

Genesis 4:1-7 and Matthew 4:18-22 (NIV)

Genesis 4:1-7

1  Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.” 

2  Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.  Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 

3  In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. 

4  And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 

5  but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.6  Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
7  If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

Matthew 4:18-22

18  As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 

19  “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 

20  At once they left their nets and followed him. 21  Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them,
22  and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him. 

Footnotes:

1. Genesis 4:1 Or The man
2. Genesis 4:1 Cain sounds like the Hebrew for brought forth or acquired.
3. Genesis 4:1 Or have acquired

Genesis 3:14-24 and Matthew 4:12-17 (NIV)

Genesis 3:14-24

14   So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
15   And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
16   To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.  Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17   To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
18   It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19   By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
20   Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
21   The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22   And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
23   So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
24   After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Matthew 4:12-17

12   When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. 

13   Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali— 

14   to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah: 15   “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
16   the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death
   a light has dawned.”
17  From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”

Footnotes:

1. Matthew 4:16 Isaiah 9:1,2

Footnotes:

1. Genesis 3:15 Or seed
2. Genesis 3:15 Or strike
3. Genesis 3:20 Or The man
4. Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.
5. Genesis 3:24 Or placed in front