The Temptation of Jesus

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And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

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forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

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and the Devil said to him, `If Son thou art of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.'

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And Jesus answered him, saying, `It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.'

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And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

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and the Devil said to him, `To thee I will give all this authority, and their glory, because to me it hath been delivered, and to whomsoever I will, I do give it;

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thou, then, if thou mayest bow before me--all shall be thine.'

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And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

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And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, `If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,

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for it hath been written--To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

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and--On hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou mayest dash against a stone thy foot.'

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And Jesus answering said to him--`It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

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And having ended all temptation, the Devil departed from him till a convenient season.

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