Luke 4:12
And Jesus answering said to him, “It has been said, You will not tempt the LORD your God.”
Literal Standard Version
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 hands they will bear you up, lest at any time you may dash your foot against a stone.”
13And having ended all temptation, the Devil departed from Him until a convenient season.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:16You do not try your God YHWH as you tried [Him] in Massah.
Psalms 106:14And they lust greatly in a wilderness, || And try God in a desert.
Matthew 4:7Jesus said to him again, “It has been written: You will not tempt the LORD your God.”
Hebrews 3:8you may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the 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 →