Matthew 4:3
And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?
Exodus 16:3and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Job 1:9Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
Psalms 78:17Yet went they on still to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Matthew 14:33And they that were in the boat worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.
Luke 4:9And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
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 →