Luke 4:3
And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
KJV
εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ διάβολος· εἰ υἱὸς εἶ τοῦ θεοῦ, εἰπὲ τῷ λίθῳ τούτῳ ἵνα γένηται ἄρτος.
Greek NT
Dixit autem illi diabolus : Si Filius Dei es, dic lapidi huic ut panis fiat.
Vulgate
And the devil said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it become bread.
ASV
And the devil said to him: If thou be the Son of God, say to this stone that it be made bread.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διάβολος
diabolos
adjective · 37×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λίθος
lithos
noun · 60×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἄρτος
artos
noun · 97×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: εἶπεν δὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: εἶπεν δὲ | RP: Καὶ εἶπεν
- εἶπεν δὲ — SBLGNT
- εἶπεν δὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Καὶ εἶπεν — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Explanation of the words of Christ, No man knows the Father, but the Son, etc.; which words the heretics misinterpret. Proof that, by the Father revealing the Son, and by the Son being revealed, the Father was never unknown. 1. For the Lord, revealing Himself to His disciples, that He Himself is the Word, who imparts knowledge of the Father, and reproving the Jews, who imagined…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 5:9 — Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
- Luke 4:9 — And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
- Matt 4:3 — And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.