Matthew 4:3

And the tempter came and said to him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

In Context

2And when he had tasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.

4But he answered and said, It is written, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.”

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Cross References

Job 1:9Then Satan answered Jehovah, Is it for nought that Job feareth God?

Psalms 78:17Yet still they sinned against him, And provoked the Most High in the desert.

Matthew 14:33And they that were in the boat fell down before him, saying, Truly thou art the Son of God.

Luke 4:9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence;

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 →

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