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And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

and the Devil said to him, `If Son thou art of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.'

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Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness(A)

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit,(B) left the Jordan(C) and was led by the Spirit(D) into the wilderness, where for forty days(E) he was tempted[a] by the devil.(F) He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God,(G) tell this stone to become bread.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:2 The Greek for tempted can also mean tested.