Matthew 4:6
and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’”
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In Context
5Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
7Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”
Cross References
Job 5:23For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
Psalms 34:20He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
Matthew 4:4But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’”
2 Corinthians 11:14And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades 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 →