Luke Chapter 4 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 4:3

And the devil said unto him, if thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it become bread.
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BBE Luke 4:3

And the Evil One said to him, If you are the Son of God, give orders to this stone to become bread.
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DARBY Luke 4:3

And the devil said to him, If thou be Son of God, speak to this stone, that it become bread.
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KJV Luke 4:3

And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
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WBT Luke 4:3


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WEB Luke 4:3

The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."
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YLT Luke 4:3

and the Devil said to him, `If Son thou art of God, speak to this stone that it may become bread.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. It has been quaintly said of the tempter "that he had sped so successfully to his own mind by a temptation about a matter of eating with the first Adam, that he practiced the old manner of his trading with the second." These diabolical promptings have been spoken of already in this Commentary as "typical." They represent, indeed, some of the principal temptations to which different classes of men and women in all ages are subject; the hard task of bread-winning, after all, suggests very many of the evil thoughts and imaginings to which men are subject, though, perhaps, they suspect it not. Weakened and exhausted by long abstinence from food, the temptation to supply his wants by this easy means at once was great. Still, had he consented to the tempter's suggestion, Jesus was aware that he would have broken the conditions of that human existence to which, in his deep love for us fallen beings, he had voluntarily consented and submitted himself. Should he, then, use his miraculous power for his own advantage? Then, re-membering his own late experience, the long fast from all human food, and yet life enduring through it all; calling to mind the miraculous supply of manna in the old desert days, the preservation of Elijah's life through a similar fast, - Jesus, all faint and weary, exclaims in reply, "Man shall not live by bread alone."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Command this stone.--The singular form is somewhat more vivid than the plural, "these stones," in St. Matthew.