After He had fasted 40 days and 40 nights,(A) He was hungry. Then the tempter approached Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”(B)

But He answered, “It is written:

Man must not live on bread alone
but on every word that comes
from the mouth of God.(C)[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:4 Dt 8:3

And after fasting (A)forty days and forty nights, he (B)was hungry. And (C)the tempter came and said to him, “If you are (D)the Son of God, command (E)these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, (F)“It is written,

(G)“‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
    but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

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