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for forty days, to be tested by the devil. He ate nothing during that time, and at the end of it he was hungry.

“If you are God’s son,” said the devil, “tell this stone to become a loaf of bread.”

“It is written,” replied Jesus, “ ‘It isn’t only bread that keeps you alive.’ ”

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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