Matthew 4:6
and says to Him, “Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written: ‘He will give orders to His angels about you, and they will lift you up on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5Then the devil takes Him into the holy city and sets Him upon the pinnacle of the temple,
7Jesus said to him, “It is also written: ‘You shall not test the Lord your God!’”
Cross References
Matthew 4:4But in answer He said, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word coming out of God's mouth.’”
2 Corinthians 11:14And no wonder, because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
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 →