Genesis 3:8-13 and Matthew 4:1-11 (NIV)

Genesis 3:8-13
8   Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9    But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10  He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11  And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12  The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13  Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
   The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Matthew 4:1-11

1   Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 

2   After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 

3   The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” 4   Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
5   Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.
6   “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:  “‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”
7   Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
8   Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
9   “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”
10  Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”
11  Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

Footnotes:

1. Matthew 4:1 The Greek for tempted can also mean tested.
2. Matthew 4:4 Deut. 8:3
3. Matthew 4:6 Psalm 91:11,12
4. Matthew 4:7 Deut. 6:16
5. Matthew 4:10 Deut. 6:13

Genesis 3:1-7 and Matthew 3:`13-17 (NIV)

Genesis 3:1-7

1   Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2   The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 

3    but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4   “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 

5   “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6   When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 

7   Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Matthew 3:13-17 
13  Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.
14  But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
15  Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.
16  As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.
17  And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

Genesis 2:10-24 and Matthew 3:1-12 (NiV)

Genesis 2:10-24
10   A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
11   The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12   (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)
13   The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
14   The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15   The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
16   And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
17   but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
18   The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19   Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
20   So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.  But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
21   So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
22   Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23   The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
24   That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.


Matthews 3:1-12
1    In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea
2    and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
3    This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:  “A voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’”
4    John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
5    People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan.
6    Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
7    But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
8    Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
9    And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
10  The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
11   “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
12   His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”










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