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He fasted for forty days and forty nights, after which he was famished.

Then the tempter approached him and said, “If you are the Son of God,[a] command these stones to be transformed into loaves of bread.” Jesus answered, “As it is written:

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

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:3 If you are the Son of God: in the sense of the Messianic King of Ps 2.
  2. Matthew 4:4 A citation of Deut 8:3, indicating that the miracles of the Exodus were signs of God’s religious care for Israel.