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Satan

Also called Beelzebub

Mentioned in 71 verses across 19 books, first in Matthew 4:1. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections), not counting Old Testament verses read as about them.

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In the Bible

All 71 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Matthew

  • Matthew 4:1

    Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

  • Matthew 4:3

    The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

  • Matthew 4:5

    Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.

  • Matthew 4:8

    Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

  • Matthew 4:10

    “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

  • Matthew 4:11

    Then the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him.

  • Matthew 10:25

    It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!

  • Matthew 12:24

    But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”

  • Matthew 12:26

    If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?

  • Matthew 12:27

    And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.

  • Matthew 13:39

    and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

  • Matthew 16:23

    But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

  • Matthew 25:41

    Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Mark

  • Mark 1:13

    and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.

  • Mark 3:22

    And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons He drives out demons.”

  • Mark 3:23

    So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

  • Mark 3:26

    And if Satan is divided and rises against himself, he cannot stand; his end has come.

  • Mark 4:15

    Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

  • Mark 8:33

    But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

Luke

  • Luke 4:2

    where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.

  • Luke 4:3

    The devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

  • Luke 4:5

    Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

  • Luke 4:8

    But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

  • Luke 4:9

    Then the devil led Him to Jerusalem and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down from here.

  • Luke 4:13

    When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

  • Luke 8:12

    The seeds along the path are those who hear, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

  • Luke 10:18

    So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

  • Luke 11:15

    but some of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that He drives out demons.”

  • Luke 11:18

    If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? After all, you say that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

  • Luke 11:19

    And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.

  • Luke 13:16

    Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”

  • Luke 22:3

    Then Satan entered Judas Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve.

  • Luke 22:31

    Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.

John

  • John 8:44

    You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

  • John 13:2

    The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.

  • John 13:27

    And when Judas had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to Judas, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”

Acts

  • Acts 5:3

    Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?

  • Acts 10:38

    how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

  • Acts 13:10

    and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

  • Acts 26:18

    to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

Romans

  • Romans 16:20

    The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

1 Corinthians

  • 1 Corinthians 5:5

    hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:5

    Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

2 Corinthians

  • 2 Corinthians 2:11

    in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:14

    And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:7

    or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

Ephesians

  • Ephesians 4:27

    and do not give the devil a foothold.

  • Ephesians 6:11

    Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.

1 Thessalonians

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:18

    For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.

2 Thessalonians

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:9

    The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,

1 Timothy

  • 1 Timothy 1:20

    Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

  • 1 Timothy 3:6

    He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

  • 1 Timothy 3:7

    Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.

  • 1 Timothy 5:15

    For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.

2 Timothy

  • 2 Timothy 2:26

    Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

Hebrews

  • Hebrews 2:14

    Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

James

  • James 4:7

    Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 Peter

  • 1 Peter 5:8

    Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

1 John

  • 1 John 3:8

    The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

  • 1 John 3:10

    By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

Jude

  • Jude 1:9

    But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

Revelation

  • Revelation 2:9

    I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

  • Revelation 2:10

    Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

  • Revelation 2:13

    I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

  • Revelation 2:24

    But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned the so-called deep things of Satan: I will place no further burden upon you.

  • Revelation 3:9

    Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.

  • Revelation 12:9

    And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

  • Revelation 12:12

    Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”

  • Revelation 20:2

    He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

  • Revelation 20:7

    When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,

  • Revelation 20:10

    And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Identified with Satan in later Jewish and Christian tradition

The Hebrew śāṭān means "adversary" or "accuser". In Job 1–2 and Zechariah 3 it has the article ("the satan"), a title rather than a name, and in Psalm 109:6 it is a human accuser ("let an accuser stand at his right hand"). 1 Chronicles 21:1 has no article and is the likeliest use as a name. Later Jewish and Christian tradition identifies these figures with Satan. These 15 verses are not counted above.

Read as Satan's fall in later Christian tradition

Isaiah 14:12-15 is a taunt over the king of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4); the "day star, son of the dawn" (Hebrew hêlēl, "shining one"; "Lucifer" in the King James and Douay-Rheims) is the king. The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908, "Devil") says the passage "is expressly directed against the King of Babylon, but both the early Fathers and later Catholic commentators agree in understanding it as applying with deeper significance to the fall of the rebel angel." These 4 verses are not counted above.

Events

Events the dataset lists Satan as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

  1. c. AD 26
    Temptations of JesusMatthew 4:1 – Luke 4:13
  2. c. AD 30
    Ananias and Sapphira lie to GodActs 5:1–11 · at Jerusalem

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

Adversary; accuser. When used as a proper name, the Hebrew word so rendered has the article “the adversary” (Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7). In the New Testament it is used as interchangeable with Diabolos, or the devil, and is so used more than thirty times.

He is also called “the dragon,” “the old serpent” (Rev. 12:9; 20:2); “the prince of this world” (John 12:31; 14:30); “the prince of the power of the air” (Eph. 2:2); “the god of this world” (2 Cor. 4:4); “the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Eph. 2:2). The distinct personality of Satan and his activity among men are thus obviously recognized. He tempted our Lord in the wilderness (Matt. 4:1-11). He is “Beelzebub, the prince of the devils” (12:24). He is “the constant enemy of God, of Christ, of the divine kingdom, of the followers of Christ, and of all truth; full of falsehood and all malice, and exciting and seducing to evil in every possible way.” His power is very great in the world. He is a “roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet. 5:8). Men are said to be “taken captive by him” (2 Tim. 2:26). Christians are warned against his “devices” (2 Cor. 2:11), and called on to “resist” him (James 4:7). Christ redeems his people from “him that had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Heb. 2:14). Satan has the “power of death,” not as lord, but simply as executioner.

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