9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
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Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, …
And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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. Thus, in the beginning of the war, he made reprisals upon him, and conquered the conq…
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