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

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for naught?

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, even, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful to death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out upon the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Command

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

And the children of Israel said to them, O that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, and when we did eat bread to the full: for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

And the mixed multitude that was among them fell to lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.

General references

And the devil said to him, If thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.