Matthew 4:3
And, coming near, the tempter said to him,—If thou art God’s, Son, speak! that, these stones, may become, loaves.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2and, fasting forty days and forty nights,—afterwards, he hungered.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now, the serpent, was more crafty than any living thing of the field which Yahweh God had made, so he said unto the woman, Can it really be that God hath said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Exodus 16:3and the sons of Israel said unto them—Oh that we had died by the hand of Yahweh, in the land of Egypt, when we remained by the pot of flesh, when we did eat bread to the full,—for ye have brought us forth into this desert, to cause all this multitude to die by famine.
Job 1:9And the accuser answered Yahweh, and said, Is it, for nought, that Job revereth God?
Psalms 78:17But again, once more sinned they against him, Resisting the Most High in a land of drought:
Matthew 14:33And, they in the boat, bowed down to him, saying—Truly, God’s Son, thou art!
Luke 4:9And he led him into Jerusalem, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,—and said [to him] —If thou art God’s, Son, cast thyself, from hence, down;
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 →