Matthew 4:1-11 - The Temptation Of Jesus

¹ Then was Jesus led away of the spirit into wilderness to be tempted of the devil. ² And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward a hungered. ³ Then came to him the tempter, and said, "If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread."

⁴ He answered and said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'"

⁵ Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, ⁶ and said unto him, "If thou be the son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, 'He shall give his angels charge over thee: and with their hands they shall hold thee up, that thou dash not thy foot against a stone.'"

⁷ And Jesus said to him, "It is written also, 'Thou shalt not tempt thy Lord God.'"

⁸ The devil took him up again and led him into an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and all the glory of them; ⁹ and said to him, "All these will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me."

¹⁰ Then said Jesus unto him, "Depart, Satan: For it is written, 'Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve.'"

¹¹ Then the devil left him, and, Behold, the angels came and ministered unto him.

¹² And immediately the spirit drove him into a wilderness: ¹³ and he was there in the wilderness forty days, and was tempted of Satan, and was with wild beasts. And the angels ministered unto him.

¹ Jesus then full of the holy ghost, returned from Jordan, and was carried of the spirit into a wilderness, ² and was forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days ate he nothing: And when they were ended, he afterward hungered. ³ And the devil said unto him, "If thou be the son of God, command this stone that it be bread."

⁴ And Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread only, but by every word of God.'"

⁵ And the devil took him up into a high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, even in the twinkling of an eye. ⁶ And the devil said unto him, "All this power will I give thee every whit, and the glory of them: for that is delivered to me, and to whosoever I will I give it: ⁷ If thou therefore wilt worship me, they shall be all thine."

⁸ Jesus answered him, and said, "Hence from me, Satan. For it is written, 'Thou shalt honour the Lord thy God, and him only serve.'"

⁹ And he carried him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, "If thou be the son of God, cast thyself down from hence. ¹⁰ For it is written, 'He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee, ¹¹ and with their hands they shall stay thee up, that thou dash not thy foot against a stone.'"

¹² Jesus answered and said to him, "It is said, 'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'"

¹³ And as soon as the devil had ended all his temptations, he departed from him for a season.