Matthew 4:1

Verse 1 of 25. The 4th of 28 chapters in Matthew, in The Gospels.

1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

5Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

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Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
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Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:1

We have here the story of a famous duel, fought hand to hand, between Michael and the dragon, the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, nay, the serpent himself; in which the seed of the woman suffers, being tempted, and so has his heel bruised; but the serpent is quite baffled in his temptations, and so has his head broken; and our Lord Jesus comes off a Conqueror, and so secures not only comfort, but conquest…

Read Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:1–11: The Temptation of Christ.

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.