1. Then the Spirit led Jesus into the desert to be tempted by the devil.
2. Jesus fasted for forty days and nights. After this, he was very hungry.
3. The devil came to Jesus to tempt him, saying, “If you are the Son of God, tell these rocks to become bread.”
4. Jesus answered, “It is written in the Scriptures, ‘A person lives not on bread alone, but by everything God says.’ ”
5. Then the devil led Jesus to the holy city of Jerusalem and put him on a high place of the Temple.