Bible verse
Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
Luke 22:31 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 22.
27 For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.
28 You are the ones who have stood by Me in My trials.
29 And I bestow on you a kingdom, just as My Father has bestowed one on Me,
30 so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
31 Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
33 “Lord,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with You even to prison and to death.”
34 But Jesus replied, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.”
35 Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.
KJV
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired [to have] you, that he may sift [you] as wheat:
ASV
Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat:
ERV
Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat:
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