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Matthew 4:1 KJV

Matthew · chapter 4 · verse 1

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.Matthew 4:1 · King James Version

Matthew 4:1 in context

1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

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Commentary

We have here the story of a famous duel, fought hand to hand, between Michael and the dragon, the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, nay, the serpent himself; in which the seed of the woman suffers, being tempted, and so has his heel bruised;

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11

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