Matthew 4:3
The Tempter came to him, and said: “If you are God’s Son, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”
Open English Bible (US)
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In Context
2And, after he had fasted for forty days and forty nights, he became hungry.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the snake was craftier than any other wild beast that the Lord God had made. It said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the garden’?”
Psalms 78:17Yet they still went on sinning against him, they defied the Most High in the desert.
Matthew 14:33But the men in the boat threw themselves on their faces before him, and said, “You are indeed God’s Son.”
Luke 4:9The devil next led him into Jerusalem, and, placing him on the parapet of the Temple, said, “If you are God’s Son throw 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 →