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Matthew 4:3

And the Tempter having come to him said, 'If Son thou art of God — speak that these stones may become loaves.'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

In Context

2and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.

4But he answering said, 'It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

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Cross References

Genesis 3:1And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, 'Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?'

Exodus 16:3and the sons of Israel say unto them, 'Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety — for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.'

Job 1:9And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'For nought is Job fearing God?

Psalms 78:17And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.

Matthew 14:33and those in the boat having come, did bow to him, saying, 'Truly — God's Son art thou.'

Luke 4:9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, 'If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down 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 →

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