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Then the Spirit led Yeshua up into the wilderness to be tempted by the Adversary.
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After Yeshua had fasted forty days and nights, he was hungry.
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The Tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, order these stones to become bread."
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But he answered, "The Tanakh says, `Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of ADONAI'"
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Then the Adversary took him to the holy city and set him on the highest point of the Temple.
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"If you are the Son of God," he said, "jump! For the Tanakh says, `He will order his angels to be responsible for you. . . . They will support you with their hands, so that you will not hurt your feet on the stones.'"
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Yeshua replied to him, "But it also says, `Do not put ADONAI your God to the test.'"h
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Once more, the Adversary took him up to the summit of a very high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in all their glory,