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1-2 Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan River, being urged by the Spirit out into the barren wastelands of Judea, where Satan tempted him for forty days. He ate nothing all that time and was very hungry.

Satan said, “If you are God’s Son, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread.”

But Jesus replied, “It is written in the Scriptures, ‘Other things in life are much more important than bread!’”[a]

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  1. Luke 4:4 Other things in life are much more important than bread, literally, “Man shall not live by bread alone,” compare Deuteronomy 8:3.

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