Luke 4:3

And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

In Context

2being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they were completed, He was hungry.

4But Jesus answered him, saying, “ It is written, ‘ Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ”

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Cross References

Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came out of heaven, saying, “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.” 1 The Genealogy of Jesus

Matthew Henry on Luke 4:2-14

The Temptation in the Wilderness. 1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. 3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. 4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. 5 And the devil, taking him up… Read the whole commentary →

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