where for forty days(A) he was tempted[a] by the devil.(B) He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God,(C) tell this stone to become bread.”

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:2 The Greek for tempted can also mean tested.
  2. Luke 4:4 Deut. 8:3

Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

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