Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And the tempter having come to him, said, If thou art the Son of God, say that these stones should become bread.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Holman Bible
Then the tempter approached Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
International Standard Version
Then the tempter came. "Since you are the Son of God," he said, "tell these stones to become loaves of bread."
A Conservative Version
And after he who tempts came, he said to him, If thou are the Son of God, speak so that these stones may become bread.
American Standard Version
And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.
Amplified
And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
An Understandable Version
The tempter [i.e., the devil] came and said to Him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to turn into bread."
Anderson New Testament
And the tempter came to him and said: If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.
Bible in Basic English
And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.
Common New Testament
And the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread."
Daniel Mace New Testament
whereupon the tempter came to him, and said, "If thou be the Son of God, command these stones to become bread."
Darby Translation
And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.
Godbey New Testament
And the tempter having come to Him, said; If thou art the Son of God, speak in order that these stones may become bread.
Goodspeed New Testament
And the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to turn into bread!"
John Wesley New Testament
And the tempter coming to him said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
King James 2000
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you are the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the tempter approached [and] said to him, "If you are the Son of God, order that these stones become bread."
Modern King James verseion
And when the tempter came to Him, he said, If You are the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then came to him the tempter, and said, "If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread."
Moffatt New Testament
So the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to become loaves."
Montgomery New Testament
So the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, bid these stones to become bread."
NET Bible
The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread."
New Heart English Bible
And the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
Noyes New Testament
And the tempter came and said to him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.
Sawyer New Testament
And the tempter came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.
The Emphasized Bible
And, coming near, the tempter said to him, - If thou art God's, Son, speak! that, these stones, may become, loaves.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And the tempter coming to him said, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones be made loaves.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And the Tempter came to him, and said: "If you are God's Son, tell these stones to become loaves of bread."
Webster
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou art the son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Weymouth New Testament
So the Tempter came and said, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to turn into loaves."
Williams New Testament
And the tempter came up and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn to bread."
World English Bible
The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
Worrell New Testament
And the Tempter, having come near, said to Him, "If Thou art God's Son, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread."
Worsley New Testament
And the tempter came to Him and said, If thou art the Son of God, command these stones to become bread:
Youngs Literal Translation
And the Tempter having come to him said, 'If Son thou art of God -- speak that these stones may become loaves.'
Themes
Adversary » Power of » Tempting Christ
Christ, character of » Resisting temptation
Divinity » Challenged » By satan
satanic If's » At the temptation » If thou be the son of God, turn stones into bread
Satan » Tempts men vanquished by men » Tempts men
Satan » Vanquished promises of ultimate triumph » Tempting Christ
Satan » The prince » The tempter
Satanic » At the temptation » If thou be the son of God, turn stones into bread
Satan's » Work » Tempting Christ
Serpent » Power of » Tempting Christ
Temptation » Satan the chief agent in
Temptation » Often arises through » Poverty
Temptation » To distrust of God's providence
Tempter » Power of » Tempting Christ
Topics
Interlinear
Peirazo
Houtos
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Temptation Of Jesus
2 And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. 3 And the tempter having come to him, said, If thou art the Son of God, say that these stones should become bread. 4 And he having answered, said, It has been written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word going forth through the mouth of God.
Names
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this I also, no more concealing, sent to know your faith, lest some way he tempting have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.
Matthew 3:17
And behold a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.
Genesis 3:1-5
And the serpent was crafty above every beast of the field which Jehovah God made; and he will say to the woman, Is it because God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis 25:29-34
And Jacob will boil a boiling, and Esau will come from the country, and he faint
Exodus 16:3
And the sons of Israel will say to them, Who will give to die by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt in our sitting by the pot of flesh, in our eating bread to satiety? for ye brought us forth to this desert to kill all this convocation with hunger.
Numbers 11:4-6
And the scraped together which in its midst will long a longing; and the sons of Israel also will turn back and weep, and they will say, Who will feed us with flesh?
Job 1:9-12
And the adversary will answer Yehovah and say, Did Job fear God gratuitously?
Job 2:4-7
And the adversary will answer Jehovah and say, Skin for skin, and all which is to a man he will give for his soul.
Psalm 78:17-20
And they will yet add to sin against him to embitter the Most High in a dry land.
Matthew 14:33
And they in the ship, having come, worshipped him, saying, Thou art truly the Son of God.
Luke 4:3
And the devil said to him, If thou art the Son of God, say thou to this stone that it might be bread.
Luke 4:9
And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him upon the small wing of the temple, and said to him, If thou art the Son of God; cast thyself down from hence:
Luke 22:31-32
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded you, to sift as wheat:
Acts 9:20
And quickly in the synagogues he proclaimed Jesus, that he is the Son of God.
Hebrews 12:16
Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of' eating sold his primogeniture.
Revelation 2:10
Neither be afraid of what things thou art about to suffer: behold, the accuser is about to cast of you into prison, that ye might be tried; and ye shall have pressure ten days: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.
Revelation 12:9-11
And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, he deceiving the whole habitable globe: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.