Text -- Matthew 4:1-3 (NET)

The Temptation of Jesus

4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 4:2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished. 4:3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mat 4:1

¹ tn Or “desert.”

NET Notes: Mat 4:2

¹ tn Grk “and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.”

NET Notes: Mat 4:3

¹ tn Grk “say that these stones should become bread.”