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Matthew 4:3
The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
Matthew 4:3 · World English Bible
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Matthew 4:3 in other translations
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 came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
And the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
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In context
1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2 When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
4 But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’”
5 Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’”
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