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Matthew 4:3

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3And the tempter approached and* said to him, “If you are the Son of God, order that these stones become bread.”

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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 “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“approached”) has been translated as a finite verb

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Then the tempter approached him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

NLTNew Living Translation

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.”

KJV 1900King 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.