Matthew 4:3
And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.
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In Context
2And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?
Exodus 16:3And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.
Job 1:9And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?
Psalms 78:17And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;
Matthew 14:33And those who were in the boat gave him worship, saying, Truly you are the Son of God.
Luke 4:9And he took him to Jerusalem and put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down from here; for it is said in the Writings,
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 →