Matthew 4:3
And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
Exodus 16:3And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the flesh pots, and ate bread to the full. Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?
Job 1:9And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain ?
Psalms 78:17And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.
Matthew 14:33And they that were in the boat came and adored him, saying: Indeed thou art the Son of God.
Luke 4:9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and he said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from 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 →