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At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert
to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry.
(Gospel)
The Temptation of Christ by the Devil, c. 1633–35,
Christoffel Jegher, after Peter Paul Rubens.
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