Luke 4:3

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.

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.

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.

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 Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led the by the spirit into the desert, ² For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. ³ And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread. ⁴ And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God. ⁵ And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. ⁶ And he said to him: To thee will I give all this power and the glory of them. For to me they are delivered: and to whom I will, I give them. ⁷ If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be thine. ⁸ And Jesus answering said to him. It is written: Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. ⁹ And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself from hence. ¹⁰ For it is written that He hath given his angels charge over thee that they keep thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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 knew Eve his wife; who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.

Genesis 4:11
Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand.

Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.

1 Kings 17:7
But after some time the torrent was dried up: for it had not rained upon the earth.

Nehemiah 13:6
But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem, because in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I went to the king, and after certain days I asked 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.