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Matthew 4:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

5 [a]Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the parapet of the temple, 6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written:

‘He will command his angels concerning you’
    and ‘with their hands they will support you,
lest you dash your foot against a stone.’”(A)

7 Jesus answered him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.’”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:5–7 The devil supports his proposal by an appeal to the scriptures, Ps 91:11a, 12. Unlike Israel (Dt 6:16), Jesus refuses to “test” God by demanding from him an extraordinary show of power.
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