Luke 4:3

Then the devil said to him, “If yoʋ are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

Text-Critical English NT

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

2where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. He ate nothing in those days, and afterward, when they had ended, he was hungry.

4But Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”

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Cross References

Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. Then a voice came from heaven, saying, “Yoʋ are my beloved Son; in yoʋ I am well pleased.”

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 →

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