Matthew 4:3
The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
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In Context
2When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
Exodus 16:3and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Job 1:9Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
Psalms 78:17Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Matthew 14:33Those who were in the boat came and worshipped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”
Luke 4:9He led him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast 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 →