Matthew 4:6

The devil said, “If you are the son of God, jump off. You know, these words are in God’s book too, ‘God will tell his angel messengers to look after you, and they will hold you up with their hands, so you will not even hurt your foot on a stone.’”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

In Context

5Then the devil took Jesus to God’s special city, called Jerusalem, and he took him up to the top of the big ceremony house there.

7Jesus said, “No. I will not do that. You see, God says this too. These words are in his book, ‘Don’t do something stupid just to test God.’”

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Cross References

Psalms 34:20God will keep that person safe, and nobody will break any of that person’s bones.

Matthew 4:4But Jesus told him, “No. I will not do that. You know what God says. These words are in his book, ‘People don’t live just by eating bread, but they live by every word that God says.’”

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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