Matthew 4:3
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And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

the tempter.

Job 1:9-12 And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain? . . .

Job 2:4-7 And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life: . . .

Luke 22:31,32 And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. . . .

1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our labour should be made vain.

Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

Revelation 12:9-11 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him. . . .

if.

Matthew 3:17 And behold a voice from heaven saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Luke 4:3,9 And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread. . . .

command.

Genesis 3:1-5 Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise? . . .

Genesis 25:29-34 And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field, . . .

Exodus 16:3 And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?

Numbers 11:4-6 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat? . . .

Psalm 78:17-20 And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water. . . .

Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau who for one mess sold his first birthright.

Context
The Temptation of Jesus
2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. 3And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.…
Cross References
Matthew 14:33
And they that were in the boat came and adored him, saying: Indeed thou art the Son of God.

Matthew 16:16
Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.

Matthew 26:63
But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the Son of God.

Mark 1:1
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Mark 3:11
And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him: and they cried, saying:

Mark 5:7
And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not.

Luke 1:35
And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Luke 4:41
And devils went out from many, crying out and saying: Thou art the son of God. And rebuking them he suffered them not to speak; for they knew that he was Christ.

Luke 22:70
Then said they all: Art thou then the Son of God? Who said: You say that I am.

John 1:34
And I saw: and I gave testimony that this is the Son of God.

John 1:49
Nathanael answered him and said: Rabbi: Thou art the Son of God. Thou art the King of Israel.

John 9:35
Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said to him: Dost thou believe in the Son of God?

John 20:31
But these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God: and that believing, you may have life in his name.

Acts 9:20
And immediately he preached Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the son of God.

2 Corinthians 1:19
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not: It is and It is not. But, It is, was in him.

Galatians 2:20
And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause also, I, forbearing no longer, sent to know your faith: lest perhaps he that tempteth should have tempted you: and our labour should be made vain.

Hebrews 4:14
Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession.

Hebrews 7:3
Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but likened unto the Son of God, continueth a priest for ever.

1 John 3:8
He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Lexicon
The
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

tempter
πειράζων (peirazōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3985: To try, tempt, test. From peira; to test, i.e. Endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline.

came
προσελθὼν (proselthōn)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 4334: From pros and erchomai; to approach, i.e. come near, visit, or worship, assent to.

to Him
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

[and] said,
εἶπεν (eipen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

“If
Εἰ (Ei)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

You are
εἶ (ei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

[the] Son
Υἱὸς (Huios)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 5207: A son, descendent. Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship.

of God,
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

tell
εἰπὲ (eipe)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

these
οὗτοι (houtoi)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3778: This; he, she, it.

stones
λίθοι (lithoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3037: A stone; met: of Jesus as the chief stone in a building. Apparently a primary word; a stone.

to become
γένωνται (genōntai)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Middle - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

bread.”
ἄρτοι (artoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 740: Bread, a loaf, food. From airo; bread or a loaf.


Additional Translations
The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

And the one tempting, having come to Him, said "If You are Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread."

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

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

And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.

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

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

So the Tempter came and said, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to turn into loaves."

The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."

And the Tempter having come to him said, 'If Son thou art of God -- speak that these stones may become loaves.'
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