Luke 4:1-4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Bible Comments

The Temptation of Christ. Luke 4:1-13

The first temptation:

Luke 4:1-4

1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

4 And Jesus answered him, saying,It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.