The Temptation of Jesus

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And Iesus full of the holy Ghost returned from Iordan, and was led by that Spirit into the wildernes,

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And was there fourtie dayes tempted of the deuil, and in those dayes he did eate nothing: but when they were ended, he afterward was hungry.

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Then the deuil saide vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, commaund this stone that it be made bread.

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But Iesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not liue by bread only, but by euery word of God.

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Then the deuill tooke him vp into an high mountaine, and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world, in the twinkeling of an eye.

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And the deuill saide vnto him, All this power will I giue thee, and the glory of those kingdomes: for that is deliuered to mee: and to whomsoeuer I will, I giue it.

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If thou therefore wilt worship mee, they shalbe all thine.

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But Iesus answered him, and saide, Hence from mee, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him alone thou shalt serue.

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Then hee brought him to Hierusalem, and set him on a pinacle of the Temple, and said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe from hence,

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For it is written, That hee will giue his Angels charge ouer thee to keepe thee:

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And with their handes they shall lift thee vp, least at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.

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And Iesus answered, and said vnto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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And when the deuil had ended all the tentation, he departed from him for a litle season.

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