Matthew 4:6
and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 1 'He will command his angels to take care of you,' and, 1 'They will lift you up in their hands, 1 so that you will not hit your foot against a stone.'”
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5Then the devil took him into the holy city and set him on the highest point of the temple building,
7Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, 'You must not test the Lord your God.'”
Cross References
Job 5:23For you will have a covenant with the stones in your field, 1 and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you. 1
Psalms 34:20He keeps all his bones, 1 not one of them will be broken. 1
Matthew 4:4But Jesus answered and said to him, “It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God.'”
2 Corinthians 11:14And this is no surprise, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
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 →