The Testing of Jesus

4 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,^(A)

The Testing of Jesus

4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil. ² He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was famished.^{(A) 3} The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”^{(B) 4} But he answered, “It is written,

⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple,^{(D) 6} saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,

⁷ Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”^(F)

⁸ Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, ⁹ and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” ¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written,

¹¹ Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.^(H)

³⁸ how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.^(A)

The Testing of Jesus

¹² And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. ¹³ He was in the wilderness forty days, tested by Satan, and he was with the wild beasts, and the angels waited on him.

The Good News of Deliverance

³⁴ He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.^(A)

³² And John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.^(A)

¹⁶ And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw God’s Spirit descending like a dove and alighting on him.^(A)