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Luke 4:3
And the devil said unto Him, If Thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
And the devil said unto Him, If Thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
On the temptation of Jesus, see the notes at Matthew 4:1. Luke 4:2 BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED - That is, through forty days he was “tried” in various ways by the devil. The temptations, however, which...
CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 4:1-13 _ 1. The Temptation in the Wilderness. (Luke 4:1 .)_ 2. The Devil Defeated. (Luke 4:13 .) Luke 4:1 What interests us most is the different order in which the three temptat...
THE TEMPTATION (Mark 11:21.*, Matthew 4:1 *). In the order of the episodes Lk. follows a geographical (rather than a psychological) sequence, putting the Jerusalem incident last. The other divergences...
Jesus came back from the Jordan full of the Holy Spirit. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, and for forty days he was tempted by the devil; and in those days he ate nothing, and when they w...
THE BATTLE WITH TEMPTATION (Luke 4:1-13)...
UNTO. to. IF THOU BE, &c. Greek. _ei,_ with Ind. App-118. Assuming the fact. Same word as in Luke 4:9. not the same word as in Luke 4:7. THE SON OF GOD. Referring to Luke 3:22. App-98. this stone; "t...
_If thou be the Son of God_ Doubtless an allusion to the divine Voice at His baptism (Luke 3:22). The same words were tauntingly addressed to our Lord on the Cross (Matthew 27:40). The Greek _strictly...
ΕἾΠΕΝ ΔῈ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι Ὁ ΔΙΆΒΟΛΟΣ. St Luke says nothing about the devil ‘approaching Him’ (Matthew 4:3), and thereby wholly leaves on one side the question of any corporal appearance. ΕἸ ΥἹῸΣ ΕἾ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂....
Luke 4:1-13. THE TEMPTATION...
VER 1. AND JESUS BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST, RETURNED FROM JORDAN, AND WAS LED BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS, 2. BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL. AND IN THOSE DAYS HE DID EAT NOTHING: AND...
ΕΊΠΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΓΈΝΗΤΑΙ _aor. conj. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться. _Conj._ СΪΝ (G2443) в _прид._ цели....
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Victory of Jesus Over Temptation Scripture_ Luke 4:1-13 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness 2 during forty...
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 4:1, and Mark 1:35. As observed on Matthew...
19 Compare Mat_14:3-5; Mar_6:17-18. 19 Herod's treatment of John is here inserted ahead of time to close the account of John's ministry before opening that of his Master's. 21-22 Compare Mat_3:13-17...
THE TEMPTATION. NAZARETH. CAPERNAUM 1-13. The Temptation (Matthew 4:1; Mark 1:12). See on Mt....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 4 JESUS AND THE DEVIL 4:1-13 V1-2 Jesus returned from the river Jordan. He was full of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit led him into the desert for 4...
IV. (1-13) BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST. — See Notes on Matthew 4:1. The words used by St. Luke describe the same fact as those used by St. Matthew and St. Mark, and agree with the Spirit given “not...
COMMAND THIS STONE. — The singular form is somewhat more vivid than the plural, “these stones,” in St. Matthew....
CHAPTER 7 THE TEMPTATION. THE waters of the Jordan do not more effectually divide the Holy Land than they bisect the Holy Life. The thirty years of Nazareth were quiet enough, amid the seclusions of...
_The Temptation_ (Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13). Lk.'s account of the temptation resembles Mt.'s so closely as to suggest a common source. Yet there are points of difference of which a not improbable...
_First temptation_. τῷ λίθῳ τ.: possibly the stone bore a certain resemblance to a loaf. _Vide_ Farrar's note (C. G. T.), in which reference is made to Stanley's account (_Sinai and Palestine_, p. 154...
THE THREEFOLD TEMPTATION Luke 4:1-13 As the waters of Jordan bisect the Holy Land, so does our Lord's baptism bisect His holy life. In that act He had identified Himself with the world's sin; and no...
As man Jesus was tempted. All the words with which He rebutted the attacks of Satan were quotations from the divine law for the government of human life. The exhaustive nature of the temptation is rev...
(2) And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. (2) Christ, being tempted by Satan, first to distrust in God, secondly to the desire of riches an...
The tempter here appears to endeavour to discover by stratagem whether Christ was the Son of God. He does not say, _if thou be the Son of God, "pray" that these stones be made bread, which he might ha...
THE TEMPTATION Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13. Matthew says that _“He was led by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.”_ Mark says: “The Spirit immediately impels Him away...
FOURTH NARRATIVE: THE TEMPTATION, LUKE 4:1-13. Every free creature, endowed with various faculties, must pass through a conflict, in which it decides either to use them for its own gratification, or t...
2 _d. Luke 4:3-4_. First Temptation. The text of Luke is very sober: _The devil said to Him._ The encounter exhibited under this form may be explained as a contact of _mind_ with _mind;_ but in Matth...
(1) And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, (2) Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and w...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_TEMPTED THROUGH THE BODY_ ‘And in those days He did eat nothing.… Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ Luke 4:2 I. TEMPTED THROUGH THE BODY.—Each one of us has a body, and...
The unknown Son of God on earth, Jesus, is led (chapter 4) into the wilderness by the Holy Ghost, with whom He had been sealed, to undergo the temptation of the enemy, beneath which Adam fell. But Jes...
AND THE DEVIL SAID UNTO HIM,.... Who now visibly appeared, and spoke unto him with an articulate voice: IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD; as has been just now declared by a voice from heaven; or seeing thou...
And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. Ver. 3. _Command this stone_] "Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be f...
_The devil said, If thou be the Son of God_, &c. For an explanation of this whole paragraph, see notes on Matthew 4:3. _The devil taketh him up into a high mountain_, &c. This temptation, which stands...
Christ's fasting and temptation in the desert. Matthew 4:1-11....
TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL (vs.1-13) The Father having pronounced His delight in His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus was led by the Spirit of God into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. In Mark 1:12 it...
1-13 Christ's being led into the wilderness gave an advantage to the tempter; for there he was alone, none were with him by whose prayers and advice he might be helped in the hour of temptation. He w...
Ver. 3,4. SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 4:3". SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 4:4". It is very observable, that Christ here asserts the authority of the Scriptures; and though he was full of the Holy Ghost, yet maketh...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And the devil looking at Him, and tempting Him, said: "If Thou art the Son of God; "[66] Tertullian On Fasting having (the power) to make "loaves out of stones,"[6...
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JESUS GOES INTO THE WILDERNESS TO PREPARE FOR HIS LIFE'S WORK AND IS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL (4:1-12). So as He contemplates His future ministry Jesus has to consider the way in which He will go about it...
‘And the Devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone that it become bread.”' The Devil (or as Matthew puts it, ‘the Tempter') then indicates one of the small white round stones...
THE TEMPTATION. See on Matthew 14:1-11. The _second_ temptation in Matthew's account is placed last by Luke. The order of Matthew is correct, because Matthew uses _phrases_ (Luke 4:5; Luke 4:8) which...
Luke 4:3. THIS STONE. Some particular one. More graphic than Matthew's account....
THE SON OF GOD (υιος του θεου). No article as in Matthew 4:3. So refers to the relationship as Son of God rather than to the office of Messiah. Manifest reference to the words of the Father in Luke...
Luke 4:1 "Tempted like as we are.". The temptation, as is evident from the language employed, was in some way connected with the descent of the Holy Spirit upon our Lord; and we are thus taught that...
Luke 4:1. _And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness Вѕ_ «Full of the Holy Ghost» Вѕand then led «into the wilderness» to be tempted....
CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth. Casting of demons out of man at Capernaum. Healing of Peter's wife's mother and others. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Satan, Josep...
Luke 4:2. _Being tempted forty days he afterward hungered._ During this space he lived like Moses on the mount, conversing with the Father in all the glories of his kingdom. His humanity was renovated...
_Being forty days tempted of the devil._ And in these days He did eat nothing THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST; A great part of the force and power of Christ’s example here is lost upon men, through their s...
_If Thou be the Son of God_ THE DEVIL’S PREFACE Satan knows how to write prefaces: here is one. He began the whole series of his temptations by a doubt cast upon our Lord’s Sonship, and a crafty qu...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 4:3 COMMAND THIS STONE... BREAD. Satan tempted Jesus to use his power to satisfy his own desires rather than trusting in God to supply all that he needed during this temptation. Jesu...
SATAN TEMPS JESUS IN THE DESERT MATTHEW 4:1-11; MARK 1:12-13; LUKE 4:1-13; MATTHEW 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness t
CHAPTER 4 VER. 1. _And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan_, having been there baptized by John a little time before, and having _visibly_ received the Holy Spirit, whose fulness...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 4:1. FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST.—Which had descended upon Him in full measure at His baptism. LED BY THE SPIRIT—Or, “in the Spirit” (cf. Luke 2:27); abiding in the Spirit as the elem...
EXPOSITION LUKE 4:1 THE TEMPTATION. The consecration of our Lord in his baptism was immediately followed by what is known as his temptation. It is, perhaps, the most mysterious and least understood...
And Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit returned from Jordan (Luke 4:1), Now He was at Jordan where He was baptized by John, and He returned from Jordan. and was led by the Spirit into the wildernes...
Luke 3:22; Matthew 4:3...
This stone. Matthew, these stones. Bread [α ρ τ ο ς]. Lit., a loaf. See on Matthew 4:3. Matthew has the plural loaves....
PETER THE SON AND SERVANT Luke 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We well remember a stained, art-glass window in which the artist had depicted Peter floundering in the sea of Galilee and half drowned. That Pe...
THE TEMPTATION Luke 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Testing the tempter. At first thought this heading may seem impossible. Was the tempter the one whom the Lord was testing? Let us weigh the meaning of...
Is there a mistake in the temptation of Jesus recorded by Matthew and Luke? (See comments on Matthew 4:5-10)...
Observe here, 1. The occasion of the temptation. And, 2. The temptation itself. The occasion of the temptation was our Saviour's hunger and want of bread. Learn thence, that when God suffers any of...