Luke 4:3

And the Calumniator said to him: If thou art the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

2forty days, to be tempted by the Calumniator. And during those days, he ate nothing; and when he had completed them, he was at last hungry.

4Jesus replied, and said to him: It is written, Not by bread only, doth man live; but by every thing of God.

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Cross References

Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit descended upon him, in the bodily likeness of a dove: and there was a voice from heaven, which said: Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I have delight.

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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