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| | Luke 4 |
 | | The Joseph Smith Translation corrects this by saying, ‘And after forty days, the devil came unto him, to tempt him’ ([Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible]. |
 | | First, his purpose for going there was not to seek out the devil, but to commune with God; second, he was not tempted for the forty days, but after the forty days were over; and third, it was the Spirit of God, not the devil, who conveyed Jesus to the mountain and the pinnacle. |
 | | The Joseph Smith Translation account is also more reasonable than that of the King James Version, for one would not fast and seek solitude in order to be tempted of the devil, but would do so to commune with God.” (Robert J. Matthews, Behold the Messiah [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1994], 188.) |
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