Luke 4:9-13 And Jesus answering said to him, It is said, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.… The words of all the three answers to the tempter come from two chapters of Deuteronomy, one of which (chapter 6.) supplied one of the passages for the phylacteries or frontiers worn by devout Jews. The fact is in every way suggestive. A prominence was thus given to that portion of the book which made it an essential part of the education of every Israelite, The words which our Lord now uses had, we must believe, been familiar to Him from His childhood, and He had read their meaning rightly. With them He may have sustained the faith of others in the struggles of the Nazareth home with poverty and want. And now He finds in them a truth which belongs to His high calling as well as to His life of lowliness. (Dean Plumptre.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.WEB: Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'" |
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