Matthew 4:6
And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
KJV
καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ, εἰ υἱὸς εἶ τοῦ θεοῦ, βάλε σεαυτὸν κάτω· γέγραπται γὰρ ὅτι τοῖς ἀγγέλοις αὐτοῦ ἐντελεῖται περὶ σοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ χειρῶν ἀροῦσίν σε, μήποτε προσκόψῃς πρὸς λίθον τὸν πόδα σου.
Greek NT
et dixit ei : Si Filius Dei es, mitte te deorsum. Scriptum est enim : Quia angelis suis mandavit de te, et in manibus tollent te, ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum.
Vulgate
and saith unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and, On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.
ASV
And said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written: That he hath given his angels charge over thee, and in their hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
26 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Ps 91:11 · exact_quote"For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways."Psalm 91: he will command his angels concerning you — Satan's temptation
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§394Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning", who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father.273 "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil."274 In its consequences the gravest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God.
§2849Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter, both at the outset of his public mission and in the ultimate struggle of his agony.159 In this petition to our heavenly Father, Christ unites us to his battle and his agony. He urges us to vigilance of the heart in communion with his own. Vigilance is "cu…
2. Having then found Him in the wilderness, and in a pathless wilderness (for that the wilderness was such, Mark has declared, saying, that He was with the wild beasts Mark 1:13), behold with how much craft he draws near, and wickedness; and for what sort of opportunity he watches. For not in his fast, but in his hunger he approaches Him; to instruct you how great a good fastin…
1. Many prophets and righteous men (it is said) have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them. Matthew 13:17 Did then those righteous men know all the things to come? Yea, most certainly. For if because of the weakness of those who were not able to receive Him, the Son was not revealed, — …
Cross-references
- 2Cor 11:14 — And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
- Gen 3:1 — 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?
- Heb 1:14 — Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
- Job 1:10 — Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
- Job 5:23 — For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
- John 1:34 — And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
- 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:
- Luke 22:43 — And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
- Mal 3:15 — And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
- Mark 3:11 — And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
- Matt 4:4 — 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.
- Matt 4:11 — Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
- Matt 27:40 — And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
- Ps 34:7 — The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
- Ps 34:20 — He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
- Ps 91:11 — For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
- Ps 91:11 — For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
- Ps 91:12 — They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.