Luke 4:3

Geneva Bible

Then the deuil saide vnto him, 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."

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the deuyll sayde vnto hym: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde this stone that it be made 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 And Iesus full of the holy Ghost returned from Iordan, and was led by that Spirit into the wildernes, ² And was there fourtie dayes tempted of the deuil, & in those dayes he did eate nothing: but when they were ended, he afterward was hungry. ³ Then the deuil saide vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, commaunde this stone that it be made bread. ⁴ But Iesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not liue by bread only, but by euery word of God. ⁵ Then the deuill tooke him vp into an high mountaine, and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world, in the twinkeling of an eye. ⁶ And the deuill saide vnto him, All this power will I giue thee, and the glory of those kingdomes: for that is deliuered to mee: and to whomsoeuer I will, I giue it. ⁷ If thou therefore wilt worship mee, they shalbe all thine. ⁸ But Iesus answered him, and saide, Hence from mee, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God, and him alone thou shalt serue. ⁹ Then hee brought him to Hierusalem, and set him on a pinacle of the Temple, and said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe from hence, ¹⁰ For it is written, That hee will giue his Angels charge ouer thee to keepe 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
Afterwarde the man knewe Heuah his wife, which conceiued and bare Kain, and said, I haue obteined a man by the Lord.

Genesis 4:11
Now therefore thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receiue thy brothers blood from thine hand.

Numbers 18:12
All the fat of the oyle, and all the fat of the wine, and of the wheate, which they shal offer vnto the Lord for their first fruites, I haue giuen them vnto thee.

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

Nehemiah 13:6
But in all this time was not I in Ierusalem: for in the two and thirtieth yere of Artahshashte King of Babel, came I vnto the King, and after certaine dayes I obteined of the King.

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.