Luke 4:3
So the devil said to him, “If you are God’s Son, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread.”
Open English Bible (US)
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
2All that time he ate nothing; and, when it was over, he became hungry.
4And Jesus answered him, “Scripture says – ‘It is not on bread alone that a person is to live.’”
Cross References
Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit came down on him in the form of a dove, and from the heavens came a voice – “You are my dearly loved son; you bring me great joy.”
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 →