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Luke 4:12 KJV
Luke · chapter 4 · verse 12
And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.Luke 4:12 · King James Version
Luke 4:12 in context
10For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
11And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
12And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
13And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
14And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
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Key words (Strong's)
- answeringapokrinomaito give an answer to a question proposed, to answer, to begin to speak, but always where…G611 →
- JesusiēsousJesus = " Jehovah is salvation" , Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind…G2424 →
- shaltekpeirazōto prove, test, thoroughly, to put to proof God s character and powerG1598 →
- saideiponto speak, sayG2036 →
- saidhotithat, because, sinceG3754 →
- saidereōto utter, speak, sayG2046 →
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The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam, bespeak him to be the seed of the woman; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent's head, baffling and foiling the devil in all his temptations, who by one temptation had baffled and foiled our first parents.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13