Jesus answered by quoting Deuteronomy: “It takes more than bread to really live.”

5-7 For the second test he led him up and spread out all the kingdoms of the earth on display at once. Then the Devil said, “They’re yours in all their splendor to serve your pleasure. I’m in charge of them all and can turn them over to whomever I wish. Worship me and they’re yours, the whole works.”

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Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’[a](A)

The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.(B) And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me,(C) and I can give it to anyone I want to.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 4:4 Deut. 8:3