Luke 4:9

The Message

For the third test the Devil took him to Jerusalem and put him on top of the Temple. He said, “If you are God’s Son, jump. It’s written, isn’t it, that ‘he has placed you in the care of angels to protect you; they will catch you; you won’t so much as stub your toe on a stone’?”

Cross References

Job 2:6

God said, “All right. Go ahead—you can do what you like with him. But mind you, don’t kill him.”

Luke 4:3

The Devil, playing on his hunger, gave the first test: “Since you’re God’s Son, command this stone to turn into a loaf of bread.”