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Matthew 4:2–4

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2and after he* had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry. 3And the tempter approached and* said to him, “If you are the Son of God, order that these stones become bread.” 4But he answered and* said, “It is written, ‘Man will not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God.’ ”a

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Matthew 4:2–3: And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”

Footnotes

  1. *Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had fasted”) which is understood as temporal
  2. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“approached”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. *Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
  4. aA quotation from Deut 8:3

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written,

“ ‘Man shall not live by bread alone,

but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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.”

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

After he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. Then the tempter approached him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

He answered, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”

NLTNew Living Translation

For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.

During that time the devil came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”

But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say,

‘People do not live by bread alone,

but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

KJV 1900King James Version

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. 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.