Matthew 4:3 - Plain English Version

³ At that time the devil came to him and said, “If you are the son of God, tell these stones to turn into loaves of bread.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And the tempter came and said to Him, If You are God's Son, command these stones to be made [loaves of] bread.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.

Common English Bible

³ The tempter came to him and said, “Since you are God’s Son, command these stones to become bread.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And approaching, the tempter said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."

Matthew 4:3 Cross References

Matthew 3:17

And God talked from heaven. He said, “This is my son. I love him very much, and I’m very happy with him.”

Mark 1:1

This story is good news. It is all about Jesus Christ, God’s son. The story starts like this.

Mark 3:11

Some of the people had bad spirits living inside them. Every time those people saw Jesus, the bad spirits pushed them down to the ground and they shouted out, “You are God’s son.”

Mark 5:7

Jesus said to the bad spirit, “Come out of this man.” But the spirit in him made him yell at Jesus, “Why did you come here? I know you. You are Jesus. You are the son of God. He is the big boss over everything. Promise me truly that you will not hurt me.”

Luke 1:35

Gabriel said, “The Holy Spirit will come to you, and God’s power will come over you and give you a baby. Your baby will be really special, and people will say he is God’s son.

John 1:49

Nathaniel said, “Teacher. You are the one we have been waiting for. You are the son of God, and you will be the big boss for all of us Israel people.”

John 20:31

But I wrote about some of the things he did so that you can believe that Jesus is the Christ, the special man that God promised to send to save us, and so that you can believe that he is God’s son. And if you believe in him, you will live with God for ever.

John 9:35

Jesus heard that the Jewish leaders told that man to get out of the meeting house. So he went and found the man, and Jesus asked him, “Do you believe in the special man that God sent from heaven?”

Acts 9:20

As soon as Saul was strong again, he started talking to the Jewish people in their meeting houses. He told them, “Jesus is God’s son.”

1 Thessalonians 3:5

And I really worried about you. I thought, “You Christians in Thessalonica are very new Christians. Maybe the boss over the bad spirits gave you too much trouble. Maybe he tricked you, so that you don’t trust Jesus any more. Maybe we worked for nothing there in Thessalonica.” That’s what I was thinking, but I didn’t really know the true story. And when I couldn’t wait any longer, I had to send Timothy to find out the true story about you.