Bible verse
The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Matthew 4:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Matthew 4.
1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
3 The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
5 Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.
6 “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
7 Jesus replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
KJV
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
ASV
And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.
ERV
And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.
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