Matthew 4:3
And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Exodus 16:3And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole congregation with hunger!
Job 1:9And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
Psalms 78:17Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
Matthew 14:33But those in the ship came and did homage to him, saying, Truly thou art God's Son.
Luke 4:9And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the edge of the temple, and said to him, If thou be Son of God, cast thyself down hence;
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 →