Luke 4:8 KJV
And Jesus answered and said unto him,
Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written,
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,
and him only shalt thou serve.
The words ‘Get thee behind me, Satan’, although by now a very familiar quotation, are without mentioning it in a footnote, omitted from from both, the Revised Version and the New American Standard Bible, as well as from most other modern versions.
S. Luke 4:8 RV1895
And Jesus answered and said unto him, It is written,
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,
and him only shalt thou serve.
Luke 4:8 NASB
Jesus answered him, “It is written,
‘You shall worship the Lord your God
and serve Him only .’ ”
This phrase was also omitted by the Wycliffe (1380) and Rheims (1582) versions.
This clause is not found in most manuscripts, and several cursives, and Latin, Sahidic, and many Syriac and Boharic manuscripts.
But it is present in some, and in some Italic manuscripts.
It is believed that the clause was probably inserted here by assimilation, because the corresponding version of this narrative, in Matthew, contains a somewhat similar rebuke to the Devil (in the KJV, “Get thee hence, Satan,”; Matthew 4:10, which is the way this rebuke reads in Luke 4:8 in the Tyndale [1534], Great Bible (also called the Cranmer Bible) [1539], and Geneva [1557] versions), whose authenticity is not disputed, and because the very same words are used in a different situation in Matthew 16:23 and Mark 8:33.
The omission of this clause from Luke 4:8 in critical texts is so well-established that no comment about the omission appears in the Appendix to Westcott & Hort, in Scrivener’s Plain Introduction to Textual Criticism, or in the UBS New Testament.
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