Matthew 4:3
The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
Exodus 16:3“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
Job 1:9Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
Psalms 78:17But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Matthew 14:33Then those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God!”
Luke 4:9Then the devil led Him to Jerusalem and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down from here.
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 →