Luke 4:12
And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
KJV
καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς ὅτι εἴρηται· οὐκ ἐκπειράσεις κύριον τὸν θεόν σου.
Greek NT
Et respondens Jesus, ait illi : Dictum est : Non tentabis Dominum Deum tuum.
Vulgate
And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.
ASV
And Jesus answering, said to him: It is said: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἐκπειράζω
ekpeirazo
verb · 6×
ἐρέω
ereo
verb · 96×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Deut 6:16 · adapted"Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah."Deuteronomy: do not put the Lord to the test — Jesus' temptation in Luke
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 10:9 — Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
- Deut 6:16 — Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
- Deut 6:16 — Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
- Exod 17:2 — Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
- Heb 3:8 — Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
- Mal 3:15 — And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
- Matt 4:4 — But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
- Matt 4:7 — Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
- Ps 95:9 — When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
- Ps 106:14 — But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.