Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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 when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterwards hungry. 3 And when the tempter came to Him, he said, If You are the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But He answered and said, It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."
Names
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause, when I could no longer endure, I also sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you and our labor may have been in vain.
Matthew 3:17
And lo, a voice from Heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Genesis 3:1-5
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said to the woman, Is it so that God has said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis 25:29-34
And Jacob boiled soup. And Esau came from the field, and he was faint.
Exodus 16:3
And the sons of Israel said to them, O that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Numbers 11:4-6
And the mixed multitude in their midst lusted with great lust. And the sons of Israel also turned and wept, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Job 1:9-12
And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?
Job 2:4-7
And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Psalm 78:17-20
And they sinned still more against Him, by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.
Matthew 14:33
And those in the boat came and worshiped Him, saying, Truly You are the Son of God.
Luke 4:3
And the Devil said to Him, If you are the Son of God, speak to this stone that it might become bread.
Luke 4:9
And he brought Him to Jerusalem and sat Him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to Him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here.
Luke 22:31-32
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired you, that he may sift you as wheat.
Acts 9:20
And immediately he proclaimed Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.
Hebrews 12:16
(lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
Revelation 2:10
Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tried. And you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 12:9-11
And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent called Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.