Luke 4:3

Bishop's Bible

And the deuyll sayde vnto hym: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde this stone that it be made bread.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

King James Version (1611)
And the deuil saide vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

King James Version
And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

English Standard Version
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

New American Standard Bible
And the devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."

New Century Version
The devil said to Jesus, "If you are the Son of God, tell this rock to become bread."

Amplified Bible
Then the devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, command this stone to turn into bread."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."

Legacy Standard Bible
And the devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."

Berean Standard Bible
The devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."

Contemporary English Version
The devil said to Jesus, "If you are God's Son, tell this stone to turn into bread."

Complete Jewish Bible
The Adversary said to him, "If you are the Son of God, order this stone to become bread."

Darby Translation
And the devil said to him, If thou be Son of God, speak to this stone, that it become bread.

Easy-to-Read Version
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this rock to become bread."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the deuil saide vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, commaunde this stone that it be made bread.

George Lamsa Translation
And the adversary said to him, If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.

Good News Translation
The Devil said to him, "If you are God's Son, order this stone to turn into bread."

Lexham English Bible
So the devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, order this stone that it become bread!"

Literal Translation
And the Devil said to Him, If You are Son of God, speak to this stone that it become a loaf.

American Standard Version
And the devil said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it become bread.

Bible in Basic English
And the Evil One said to him, If you are the Son of God, give orders to this stone to become bread.

Hebrew Names Version
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

International Standard Version
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread."

Etheridge Translation
And the accuser said to him, If thou art the Son of Aloha, tell this stone to become bread.

Murdock Translation
And the Calumniator said to him: If thou art the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.

English Revised Version
And the devil said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it become bread.

World English Bible
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the devil said to him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

Weymouth's New Testament
Then the Devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, tell this stone to become bread."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the deuel seide to him, If thou art Goddis sone, seie to this stoon, that it be maad breed.

Update Bible Version
And the devil said to him, if you are the Son of God, command this stone that it become bread.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the devil said to him, If thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

New English Translation
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

New King James Version
And the devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

New Living Translation
Then the devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread."

New Life Bible
The devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to be made into bread."

New Revised Standard
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the adversary said to him - If thou art God's, Son, speak unto this stone; that it become bread.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread.

Revised Standard Version
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And the devyll sayde vnto him: yf thou be the sonne of God comaunde this stone yt it be breed.

Young's Literal Translation
and the Devil said to him, `If Son thou art of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the deuell sayde vnto him: Yf thou be ye sonne of God, comaunde this stone, yt it be bred.

Mace New Testament (1729)
then the devil said to him; if you are the son of God, command this stone to become bread.

THE MESSAGE
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."

Simplified Cowboy Version
That's when that old snake attacked. "If you're God's Boy, make you some bread out of these stones on the ground."

Contextual Overview

¹ Iesus, being full of the holy ghost, returned from Iordane, & was ledde by the spirite into wyldernesse, ² And was fourtie dayes tempted of the deuyll, and in those dayes dyd he eate nothyng: And when they were ended, he afterwarde hungred. ³ And the deuyll sayde vnto hym: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde this stone that it be made bread. ⁴ And Iesus aunswered hym, saying: It is written, that man shall not lyue by bread only, but by euery word of god. ⁵ And the deuyll toke hym into an hye mountayne, & shewed hym all the kingdomes of ye worlde in a moment of time. ⁶ And the deuyl saide vnto hym: all this power wyll I geue thee euerywhyt, & the glory of them, for that is deliuered vnto me, and to whomsoeuer I wyll, I geue it. ⁷ If thou therfore wilt fall downe before me, & worship me, they shalbe all thine. ⁸ Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym, Hence from me Satan: For it is writte, Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God, and hym only shalt thou serue. ⁹ And he caryed hym to Hierusalem, & set hym on a pinacle of the temple, and sayde vnto him: If thou be the sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe from hence. ¹⁰ For it is written, that he shall geue his Angels charge ouer thee, to kepe thee.

Bible Verse Review
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Luke 3:22, Matthew 4:3

Reciprocal: Luke 4:9 - If Luke 4:10 - it 1 Peter 5:9 - resist

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
And Adam knewe Heua his wyfe, who conceauing bare Cain, saying: I haue gotten a man of the Lorde.

Genesis 4:11
And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.

Numbers 18:12
Al the fat of the oyle, & al the fat of the wine, & of the wheate, which they shall offer vnto the Lorde for first fruites, the same haue I geuen vnto thee.

1 Kings 17:7
And it chaunced after a while that the brooke dryed vp, because there fell no rayne vpon the earth.

Nehemiah 13:6
But in all this time was not I at Hierusalem: for in the two and thirtie yere of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, came I vnto the king, & after certayne dayes obtayned I licence of the king to come to Hierusalem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, since thou art hungry, and in a wilderness, where no food is to be had,

command this stone that it be made bread; say but the word, and this stone, which he held out to him, or pointed at, as lying before them, or any one of the stones, which were in sight, for Matthew speaks of them in the plural number, will immediately be converted into bread, if he was what he was said to be: this he suggests might easily be effected by him, and he had no need to continue hungry.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On the temptation of Jesus, see the notes at Matthew 4:1-11.

Luke 4:2

Being forty days tempted - That is, through forty days he was “tried” in various ways by the devil. The temptations, however, which are recorded by Matthew and Luke did not take place until the forty days were finished. See Matthew 4:2-3.

He did eat nothing - He was sustained by the power of God during this season of extraordinary fasting.

Luke 4:13

Departed for a season - For a time. From this it appears that our Saviour was “afterward” subjected to temptations by Satan, but no “particular” temptations are recorded after this. From John 14:30, it seems that the devil tried or tempted him in the agony in Gethsemane. Compare the notes at Hebrews 12:4. It is more than probable, also, that Satan did much to excite the Pharisees and Sadducees to endeavor to “entangle him,” and the priests and rulers to oppose him; yet out of all his temptations God delivered him; and so he will make a way to escape for “all” that are tempted, and will not suffer them to be tempted above that which they are able to bear, 1 Corinthians 10:13.

Luke 4:14

In the power of the Spirit - By the “influence” or direction of the Spirit.

A fame - A report. See Matthew 4:24.