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THE REDEEMER AMONG MEN 343
JESUS REPULSES THE TEMPTER
of the roughest of all the deserts in Palestine. Here the Savior hid himself away for forty days, praying and fasting in preparation for the great work for which He had come into the world. He had no com­ panions save the wild beasts of the desert. For forty days and forty nights, He took neither food nor drink.
fter the long fast, Jesus was hungry. Satan ap­ Tbe peared to H in the desert and said, ''If Thou be the st
tempt Son of God, command that these stones be made tionof
bread.'' But Jesus answered: ''Not in bread alone Jesus doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from
the mouth of God.''
Then the devil took Him up into the Holy City, and