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Then the Spirit led Jesus into the desert. The devil tried to make Jesus do wrong.

Jesus did not eat anything for forty days and forty nights. Then he was very hungry.

The one who tries to make people do wrong came and said to him, `If you are God's Son, tell these stones to be changed into 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.