Luke 4:12
And Jesus answering said to him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God.
Darby Translation
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 on [their] hands shall they bear thee, lest in any wise thou strike thy foot against a stone.
13And the devil, having completed every temptation, departed from him for a time.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:16Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Psalms 106:14And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Matthew 4:7Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God.
Hebrews 3:8harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation 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 →