Matthew 4:6
and said to him: If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written: He will give his angels charge concerning you; and in their hands shall they take you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5Then the devil took him into the holy city, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple,
7Jesus said to him: It is again written, You shall not put the Lord your God to the proof.
Cross References
Matthew 4:4But 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.
2 Corinthians 11:14and no wonder, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
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 →