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## Matthew 4:1-2 in Context (Verses 1–5 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/matthew/4/1) Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/matthew/4/2) And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/matthew/4/3) And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/matthew/4/4) But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/matthew/4/5) Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
 
[Matthew 3](/kjv/matthew/3) [Matthew 5](/kjv/matthew/5)

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