Matthew 4:3
1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
4 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
5 Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
- KJV
- And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
- WEB
- The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
- ASV
- And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.
- DARBY
- And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.
- BLB
- And the one tempting, having come to Him, said, “If You are the Son of God, speak, that these stones might become loaves.”
- ÅB
- Og fristeren kom til ham og sa: «Hvis du er Guds Sønn, så si til disse steinene skal bli til brød!»
- OTB
- Fristeren kom til ham og sa: «Hvis du er Guds Sønn, si at disse steinene skal bli til brød.»
- B1930
- Og fristeren kom til ham og sa: Er du Guds Sønn, da si at disse stener skal bli til brød!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.
Read in contextGenesis 3:1–5
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
Read in contextNumbers 11:4–6
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
Read in contextLuke 22:31–32
Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
Read in contextRevelation 2:10
Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Read in contextPsalms 78:17–20
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Read in contextGenesis 25:29–34
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
Read in contextJob 2:4–7
“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
Read in context