Luke 4:3

So the devil said to Him, “Since you are Son of God, tell this stone to become bread!”

Family 35 New Testament

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

2where He was tested for forty days by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, so after they were completed He was hungry.

4Jesus 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 and rested upon Him, and a Voice came out of heaven saying, “You are my beloved Son; in you I am always well pleased.”

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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