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Luke 4:5

Verse 5 of 44. The 4th of 24 chapters in Luke, in The Gospels.

1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

2for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

3The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

4Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”

5The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

6The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I want.

7If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.”

8Jesus answered him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

9He led him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.