Matthew 4:3
The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”
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2When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more shrewd than any other beast of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the garden'?”
Exodus 16:3The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by Yahweh's hand in the land of Egypt when we were sitting by the pots of meat and were eating bread to the full. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill our whole community with hunger.”
Job 1:9Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, “Does Job fear God without reason?
Psalms 78:17Yet they continued to sin against him, 1 rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness. 1
Matthew 14:33Then the disciples in the boat worshiped Jesus and said, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
Luke 4:9Then the devil led Jesus to Jerusalem and put him on the very highest point of the temple building, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, 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 →