Matthew 4:3

The tempter challenges Jesus to turn stones into bread, casting doubt on his sonship. Satan attacks at the point of physical need.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Th 3:5For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.
• Gen 3:1–5Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
• Num 11:4–6Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
• Luke 22:31–32Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
• Rev 2:10Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• Ps 78:17–20But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
• Rev 12:9–11And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
• Gen 25:29–34One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
• Job 1:9–12Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
• Matt 3:17And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
• Job 2:4–7“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
• Exod 16:3“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
• Heb 12:16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
• Matt 14:33Then those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God!”
• Acts 9:20Saul promptly began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, declaring, “He is the Son of God.”
• Luke 4:3The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”
• Luke 4:9Then the devil led Him to Jerusalem and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down from here.

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