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The one who tries to make people do wrong came and said to him, `If you are God's Son, tell these stones to be changed into bread.'

But Jesus answered him, `The holy writings say, "Man cannot live on bread only. He needs to live by every word that God says." '

Then the devil took Jesus to the holy city. He put him on a high part of the temple.

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The tempter(A) came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God,(B) tell these stones to become bread.”

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’[a](C)

Then the devil took him to the holy city(D) and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:4 Deut. 8:3

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,

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