Matthew 4:3

Satan, the tempter, came to him and said, “Because you claim that you have a relationship with God as a son has with his father [MET], prove it by commanding these stones to become bread so that you can eat them!”

Translation for Translators

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

2After he did not eat food for 40 days, and 40 nights. he was hungry.

4But Jesus said to him, “ No! I will not change stones into bread, because it is written in the Scriptures {in the Scriptures Moses wrote}, ‘Eating food [SYN] sustains people physically, but it does not sustain them spiritually [SYN]. Instead, paying attention to everything that God has spoken to them is what sustains people spiritually.’”

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Cross References

Genesis 3:1The snake was more cunning than all the other wild animals that Yahweh God had made. One day Satan gave to the snake the ability to talk to the woman. The snake said to her, “Did God really say to you, ‘Do not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the park/garden’?”

Exodus 16:3They said to them/us, “We wish that Yahweh had killed us in Egypt! There we had meat to eat, and all the bread that we wanted. But you have brought us into this desert in order that we will all starve to death!”

Job 1:9Satan replied to Yahweh, “ What you say is true, but Job greatly respects you only because of what you have done for him [RHQ].

Psalms 78:17But our ancestors continued to sin against God; in the desert they rebelled against the one who is greater than any other god.

Matthew 14:33All of us disciples who were in the boat worshipped Jesus and said, “Truly you are the ◄Son of/man who is also► God!”

Luke 4:9Then the devil took Jesus to Jerusalem. He set him on the highest part of the Temple and said to him, “Because you claim that you ◄ have a relationship with God as a son has with his father [MET]/are the man who is both God and man►, prove it by jumping 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 →

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