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Then the devil took Him into the holy city and placed Him on the highest point of the Temple. “If You are Ben-Elohim,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written,

‘He shall command His angels concerning you,’[a]
and ‘upon their hands they shall lift you up,
so that you may not strike your foot against a stone.’”[b]

Yeshua said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put Adonai your God to the test.’”[c]

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Then the devil took him to the holy city(A) and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,”(B) he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you,
    and they will lift you up in their hands,
    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’[a](C)

Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:6 Psalm 91:11,12
  2. Matthew 4:7 Deut. 6:16