Add parallel Print Page Options

The tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.” [a]He said in reply, “It is written:(A)

‘One does not live by bread alone,
    but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.’”

[b]Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the parapet of the temple,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 4:4 Cf. Dt 8:3. Jesus refuses to use his power for his own benefit and accepts whatever God wills.
  2. 4:5–7 The devil supports his proposal by an appeal to the scriptures, Ps 91:11a, 12. Unlike Israel (Dt 6:16), Jesus refuses to “test” God by demanding from him an extraordinary show of power.

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

Read full chapter