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Forty days in the desert
After his baptism, Jesus spent forty days in the Judean desert, fasting. There he was tempted: to turn stones into bread, to throw himself down from the top of the temple, to worship the devil in exchange for all the kingdoms. He answered each temptation with Scripture.
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’”
Matthew 4:1-11 · Read it in the Bible
Did you know? Forty is a number that recurs in the Bible: the people’s forty years in the desert, Moses’ forty days on the mountain. That is where the forty days of Lent come from.
A question
What did the tempter ask him to turn into bread?