⁹ The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here.

⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city^(A) and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. ⁶ “If you are the Son of God,”^(B) he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:

³ The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God,^(A) tell this stone to become bread.”

⁴ and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power^[a](A) by his resurrection from the dead:^(B) Jesus Christ our Lord.^(C)

²⁹ “What do you want with us,^(A) Son of God?” they shouted. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?”^(B)

⁶ The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands;^(A) but you must spare his life.”^(B)

⁴ The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits^[a] long across the width of the building and twenty^[b] cubits high.

He overlaid the inside with pure gold.