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Jesus fasted for forty days and nights. After this, he was very hungry. The devil came to Jesus to tempt him, saying, “If you are the Son of God, tell these rocks to become bread.”

Jesus answered, “It is written in the Scriptures, ‘A person lives not on bread alone, but by everything God says.’”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:4 ‘A person . . . says.’ Quotation from Deuteronomy 8:3.

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