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The Devil Tempts Jesus

Now Jesus, full of [and in perfect communication with] the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness(A) for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they ended, He was hungry.(B) Then the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to turn into bread.” Jesus replied to him, “It is written and forever remains written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone[a].’”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:4 Late mss add “but by every word of God.”

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