The Temptation in the Wilderness

Tyndale New Testament

Mat 4:1–11

1 Then was Iesus ledd awaye of the spirite into wildernes to be tempted of the devyll.
2 And when he had fasted fourtye dayes and fourtye nightes he was afterward an hungred.
3 Then came to hym the tempter and sayde: yf thou be the sonne of God commaunde that these stones be made breed.
4 He answered and sayde: that is wrytten man shall not lyve by brede onlye but by every worde that proceadeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devyll tooke hym vp into the holy cite and set hym on a pynacle of the temple
6 and sayd vnto hym: yf thou be the sonne of God cast thy sylfe doune. For it is wrytte he shall geve his angels charge over the and with their handes they shall holde that vp that thou dashe not thy fote agaynst a stone.
7 And Iesus sayde to hym it ys wrytten also: Thou shalt not tempte thy Lorde God.
8 The devyll toke hym vp agayne and ledde hym in to an excedynge hye mountayne and shewed hym all the kyngdomes of the worlde and all the glorie of them
9 And sayde to hym: all these will I geue the if thou wilt faull doune and worship me.
10 Then sayde Iesus vnto hym. Avoyd Satan. For it is writte thou shalt worshyp the Lorde thy God and hym only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the dyvell left hym and beholde the angels came and ministred vnto hym.

12 And immediatly the sprete drave him into wildernes:
13 and he was there in the wildernes xl dayes and was tempted of Satan and was with wilde beestes. And the aungels ministred vnto him.

1 Iesus then full of the holy goost returnyd from Iordan and was caryed of the sprete into wildernes
2 and was .xl. dayes tempted of the devyll. And in thoose dayes ate he no thinge. And when they were ended he afterward hongred.
3 And the devyll sayde vnto him: yf thou be the sonne of God commaunde this stone that it be breed.
4 And Iesus answered hym sayinge: It is written: man shall not live by breed only but by every worde of God.
5 And the devyll toke him vp into an hye moutayne and shewed him all the kyngdoms of the worlde even in the twincklinge of an eye.
6 And the devyll sayde vnto him: all this power will I geve the every whit and the glory of them: for that is delyvered to me and to whosoever I will I geve it.
7 Yf thou therfore wilt worshippe me they shalbe all thyne.
8 Iesus answered him and sayde: hence from me Sathan. For it is written: Thou shalt honour the Lorde thy God and him only serve.
9 And he caryed him to Ierusalem and set him on a pynacle of the temple and sayd vnto him: Yf thou be the sonne of God cast thy silfe doune from hens.
10 For it is written he shall geve his angels charge over the to kepe the,
11 and with there hondis they shall stey the vp that thou dasshe not thy fote agaynst a stone.
12 Iesus answered and sayde to him it is sayd: thou shalt not tempte the Lorde thy God.
13 Assone as the devyll had ended all his temptacions he departed from him for a season.