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

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

The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.(C) And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me,(D) and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’[b](E)

The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. 10 For it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you
    to guard you carefully;
11 they will lift you up in their hands,
    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’[c](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:4 Deut. 8:3
  2. Luke 4:8 Deut. 6:13
  3. Luke 4:11 Psalm 91:11,12

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.

And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:

10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:

11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

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15 But some of them said, “By Beelzebul,(A) the prince of demons, he is driving out demons.”(B)

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15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.

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18 He replied, “I saw Satan(A) fall like lightning from heaven.(B)

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18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

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