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Christ fasts and is proved. He calls Peter, Andrew, James, and John, and heals all the sick.

Then Jesus was led away by the Spirit into wilderness, to be tried by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungered. Then the tempter came to him and said, If you are the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

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Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness(A)

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[a](B) by the devil.(C) After fasting forty days and forty nights,(D) he was hungry. The tempter(E) came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God,(F) tell these stones to become bread.”

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Footnotes

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