Matthew 4:3
And the tempting [one], having come to Him, said, “If You are the Son of God—speak that these stones may become loaves.”
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In Context
2and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He hungered.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1And the serpent has been cunning above every beast of the field which YHWH God has made, and he says to the woman, “Is it true that God has said, You do not eat from every tree of the garden?”
Exodus 16:3and the sons of Israel say to them, “Oh that we had died by the hand of YHWH in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety—for you have brought us out to this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.”
Job 1:9And Satan answers YHWH and says, “Is Job fearing God for nothing?
Psalms 78:17And they still add to sin against Him, || To provoke the Most High in the dry place.
Matthew 14:33and those in the boat having come, worshiped Him, saying, “You are truly God’s Son.”
Luke 4:9And he brought Him to Jerusalem, and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, cast 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 →