Luke 4:3

Then the Devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, tell this stone to become bread."

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

2tempted all the while by the Devil. During those days He ate nothing, and at the close of them He suffered from hunger.

4"It is written," replied Jesus, "`It is not on bread alone that a man shall live.'"

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Cross References

Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit came down in bodily shape, like a dove, upon Him, and a voice came from Heaven, which said, "Thou art My Son, dearly loved: in Thee is My 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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