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Matthew 4:3

Jesus
TemptationSpiritual warfare

1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be 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 proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

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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.

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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 cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

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  • Genesis 3:1–5

    Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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  • Numbers 11:4–6

    And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

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  • Luke 22:31–32

    And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:

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  • Revelation 2:10

    Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

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  • Psalms 78:17–20

    And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

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  • Genesis 25:29–34

    And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

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  • Job 2:4–7

    And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

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