Luke 4:1–9
1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness↗
2for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.↗
3The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”↗
4Jesus answered him, saying,“It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”↗
5The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.↗
6The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I want.↗
7If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.”↗
8Jesus answered him,“Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”↗
9He led him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,↗
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