Matthew 4:6
“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
5Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.
7Jesus replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
Cross References
Job 5:23For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
Psalms 34:20He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.
Matthew 4:4But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
2 Corinthians 11:14And no wonder, for 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 →