Luke 4:3 (BSB)
The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”
Commentary on Luke 4:3
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Luke 4:1-13: The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam, bespeak him to be the seed of the woman; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent's head, baffling and foiling the devil in all his temptations, who by one temptation had baffled and foiled our first parents.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Luke 4:3: And the devil said unto him,.... Who now visibly appeared, and spoke unto him with an articulate voice: if thou be the Son of God; as has been just now declared by a voice from heaven; or seeing thou art in such a relation to God, and so equal to him, and possessed of all divine perfections, and among the rest, of almighty power; wherefore...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Luke 4:3: Verse 3. No entry from BARNES for this verse.
- William Burkitt (Anglican), Expository Notes on the New Testament on Luke 4:3: Observe here, 1. The occasion of the temptation. And, 2. The temptation itself. The occasion of the temptation was our Saviour's hunger and want of bread. Learn thence, that when God suffers any of his children to fall into want, and to be straitened for outward things, Satan takes a mighty advantage thereupon to tempt and assault them. Observe, 3.