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And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led the by the spirit into the desert,
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For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.
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And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread.
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And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God.
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And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
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And he said to him: To thee will I give all this power and the glory of them. For to me they are delivered: and to whom I will, I give them.
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If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be thine.
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And Jesus answering said to him. It is written: Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
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And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from hence.
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For it is written that He hath given his angels charge over thee that they keep thee.
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And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.
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And Jesus answering, said to him: It is said: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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And all the temptation being ended, the devil departed from him for a time.