Matthew 4:3

And the tempter came to him and said: If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

In Context

2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.

4But he answered and said: It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.

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Cross References

Matthew 14:33And they that were in the ship came and worshiped him, saying: Truly, thou art the Son of God.

Luke 4:9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him: If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from this place;

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 →

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