Matthew 4:3

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Summary

Matthew 4:3

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

The tempter

Command

General references

Luke 4:3

Bible References

The tempter

And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life;

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to have you, to sift you as wheat;

For this reason I also, no longer able to refrain myself, sent to know your faith, lest perhaps the tempter had tempted you and our labour should be come to nothing.

Fear nothing of what thou art about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of life.

And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Command

And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And Jacob had cooked a dish; and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole congregation with hunger!

And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted; and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?

Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;

General references

And the devil said to him, If thou be Son of God, speak to this stone, that it become bread.