Luke 4:12
And Jesus answered and said to him: It is said, You shall not put the Lord your God to the proof.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
In Context
11and in their hands they shall take you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.
13And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a time.
Cross References
Matthew 4:7Jesus said to him: It is again written, You shall not put the Lord your God to the proof.
Hebrews 3:8harden not your hearts, as in the bitter provocation, in the day of trial in the wilderness,
Matthew Henry on Luke 4:2-14
The Temptation in the Wilderness. 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. 5 And the devil, taking him up… Read the whole commentary →