And the tempter came and said unto him, “If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

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.’”

Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, “If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down:  for it is written,

     “’He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to guard
     thee.’

and,

    “’On their hands they shall bear thee up,
    Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.’”

Jesus said unto him, “Again it is written, ’Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.’”

Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and the glory of them.

And the devil said unto him, “To thee will I give all this authority, and the glory of them:  for it hath been delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.  If thou therefore wilt worship before me, it shall all be thine.”

Then saith Jesus unto him, “Get thee hence, Satan:  for it is written.  ‘Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.’”

And when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him for a season; and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

JOHN’S TESTIMONY TO JESUS.

And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent unto him from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him, “Who art thou?” And he confessed and denied not; and he confessed, “I am not the Christ.”

And they asked him, “What then?  Art thou Elijah?”

And he saith, “I am not.”

“Art thou the prophet?”

And he answered “No.”

They said therefore unto him, “Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us?  What sayest thou of thyself?”

He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ’Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as said Isaiah the prophet.”

And they had been sent from the Pharisees.  And they asked him, and said unto him, “Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet.”

John answered them, saying, “I baptize in water:  in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not, even he that cometh after me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose.”

These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, “Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!  This is he of whom I said, ’After me cometh a man who is become before me:  for he was before me.’  And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to Israel, for this cause came I baptizing in water.”