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)

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter

being [a]tempted for forty days by the devil. And (A)in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.

And the devil said to Him, “If You are (B)the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, (C)‘Man shall not live by bread alone, [b]but by every word of God.’

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:2 tested
  2. Luke 4:4 NU omits but by every word of God