Then the Devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, tell this stone to become bread."

"It is written," replied Jesus, "'It is not on bread alone that a man shall live.'"

This they did, and enclosed a vast number of fish; and their nets began to break.

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

For already He had been commanding the foul spirit to come out of the man. For many a time it had seized and held him, and they had repeatedly put him in chains and fetters and kept guard over him, but he used to break the chains to pieces, and, impelled by the demon, to escape into the Desert.

And He commanded them, "Take nothing for your journey; neither stick nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have an extra under garment.

give us day after day our bread for the day;

And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him in the middle of the night and say, "'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread;

"And he from indoors shall answer, "'Do not pester me. The door is now barred, and I am here in bed with my children. I cannot get up and give you bread.'

And what father is there among you, who, if his son asks for a slice of bread, will offer him a stone? or if he asks for a fish, will instead of a fish offer him a snake?

"But on coming to himself he said, "'How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!

Meanwhile the Festival of the Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,

When the day of the Unleavened Bread came--the day for the Passover lamb to be sacrificed--

But as soon as He had sat down with them, and had taken the bread and had blessed and broken it, and was handing it to them,

Then they related what had happened on the way, and how He had been recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.