Matthew 4:6
and said to him: “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down. For it has been written: ‘For he has given charge of you to his angels, and they shall take you into their hands, lest perhaps you may hurt your foot against a stone.’”
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In Context
5Then the devil took him up, into the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
7Jesus said to him, “Again, it has been written: ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”
Cross References
Job 5:23For you are in harmony with the stones of the land, and the beasts of the earth will make peace with you.
Psalms 34:20For indeed, they spoke peacefully to me; and speaking with passion to the earth, they intended deceit.
Matthew 4:4And in response he said, “It has been written: ‘Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”
2 Corinthians 11:14And no wonder, for even Satan presents himself as if he were 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 →