Matthew 4:3
And after he who tempts came, he said to him, If thou are the Son of God, speak so that these stones may become bread.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yea, has God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?
Exodus 16:3And the sons of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full, for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this who
Job 1:9Then Satan answered LORD, and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?
Psalms 78:17Yet they went on to still sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Matthew 14:33And those who came in the boat worshiped him, saying, Thou really are the Son of God.
Luke 4:9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and he said to him, If thou are the Son of God, cast thyself down from here,
Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:2-12
The Temptation of Christ. 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a… Read the whole commentary →