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 cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
• Gen 3:1–5Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
• Num 11:4–6The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
• Luke 22:31–32The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
• Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• Ps 78:17–20Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
• Rev 12:9–11The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
• Gen 25:29–34Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished.
• Job 1:9–12Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
• Matt 3:17Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
• Job 2:4–7Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
• Exod 16:3and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
• Heb 12:16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.
• Matt 14:33Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”
• Acts 9:20Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
• Luke 4:3The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
• Luke 4:9He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,

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