Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 4:3
Coming to him — In a visible form; probably in a human shape, as one that desired to inquire farther into the evidences of his being the Messiah.
Coming to him — In a visible form; probably in a human shape, as one that desired to inquire farther into the evidences of his being the Messiah.
Verse Matthew 4:3. _AND WHEN THE TEMPTER_] This onset of Satan was made (speaking after the manner of men) _judiciously_: he came when Jesus, after having fasted forty days and forty nights, was hung...
THE TEMPTER - The devil, or Satan. See Matthew 4:1. IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD - If thou art God’s own Son, then thou hast power to work a miracle, and here is a suitable opportunity to try thy power,...
4. THE TESTING OF THE KING AND HIS TESTIMONY. _ 1. The Testing by the Devil. (Matthew 4:1 .) 2. His Testimony and His Disciples. (Matthew 4:12 .) 3. The Powers of the Kingdom. (Matthew 4:23 .)_ CHAP...
THE TEMPTATION (Mark 1:12 f.*, Luke 4:1 *). Jesus'sudden recognition of His Sonship or Messiah-ship and of the responsibility thus laid upon Him, found natural expression in His retirement into solitu...
AND WHEN THE TEMPTER CAME TO HIM. He chose the hour of weakness for his great assault, the hour of physical exhaustion, after his great spiritual season, the hour when hunger asserted itself most kee...
THE TESTING TIME (Matthew 4:1-11) Step by step Matthew unfolds the story of Jesus. He begins by showing us how Jesus was born into this world. He goes on to show us, at least by implication, that Jes...
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After he had deliberately gone without food for forty days and forty nights he was hungry. So the tempter came and said...
WHEN... CAME, &c.= having approached Him and said. THE TEMPTER= he who was tempting Him. See App-116. CAME TO HIM : as to our first parents, Adam and Eve, App-119. HE SAID. See App-116 for the two s...
Matthew 4:1-11. The Temptation of Jesus. Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13 St Mark's account is short; the various temptations are not specified; he adds the striking expression "he was with the wild beasts....
_that these stones be made bread_ The temptation is addressed to the appetite, Use thy divine power to satisfy the lusts of the flesh....
ἽΝΑ ΟἹ ΛΊΘΟΙ ΟὟΤΟΙ ἌΡΤΟΙ ΓΈΝΩΝΤΑΙ. The temptation is addressed to the appetite, Use thy divine power to satisfy the desire of the flesh. The very discipline by which He fortified his human soul agains...
THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13. St Mark’s account is short; the various temptations are not specified; he adds the striking expression ἦν μετὰ τῶν θηρίων. St Luke places the tempt...
VER 3. AND WHEN THE TEMPTER CAME TO HIM, HE SAID, "IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, COMMAND THAT THESE STONES BE MADE BREAD." 4. BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID, "IT IS WRITTEN, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE,...
_JESUS WAS A TEMPTED SAVIOR MATTHEW 4:1-11:_ At this point Jesus began His preaching ministry as described in Isaiah 61:1. "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to...
ΠΡΟΣΕΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4334) приходить. "Когда он пришел..." ΠΕΙΡΆΖΩ Ν (G3985) _praes. act. part._ Part, употребляется в _знач._ сущ.: "тот, кто все время искушает" ΕΙ ...
WHEN THE TEMPTER CAME TO HIM, HE SAID, &C.— We may infer from Mark 1:13 that during the forty days which Jesus spent in the wilderness, he was exposed to several other temptations besides those mentio...
CHAPTER FOUR Section 7. JESUS IS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL (Parallels: Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13) TEXT: 4:1-11 1. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2....
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. AND WHEN THE TEMPTER CAME TO HIM. Evidently we have here a new scene. HE SAID, IF TH...
16-17 Compare Joh_1:32-34. 16 As God's Spirit has no material form it is figured to us in various ways, which suggest its force and significance. It is usually presented as a blast of air, for this is...
THE TEMPTATION 1-11. The temptation (Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1). The narrative, which can only have come from our Lord's own lips, describes an actual historical fact, the great temptation which He underwen...
IF TNOU BE] Probably Satan expressed doubt in order to tempt Jesus to prove Himself the Son of God by a miracle. 4. See prefatory remarks....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 4 THE DEVIL TESTS JESUS 4:1-11 V1 The *Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert. The devil tested Jesus while he was there. V2 For 40 d...
WHEN THE TEMPTER CAME. — Nothing in the narrative suggests the idea of a bodily presence visible to the eye of sense, and all attempts so to realise it, whether as Milton has done in _Paradise Regaine...
CHAPTER 5 His Temptation - Matthew 4:1 MUCH has been written on the possibility of temptation in the experience of a sinless Being. The difficulties which have been raised in this region are chiefly...
_First temptation_, through hunger....
προσελθὼν, another of the evangelist's favourite words, implies that the tempter is conceived by the narrator as approaching outwardly in visible form. εἰπὲ ἵνα : literally “speak in order that”. Some...
_The Temptation_ (Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13)....
TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL Matthew 4:1-11 _Then_ marks the close connection between the heavenly voice of the baptism and the fiery ordeal of the forty days. Notice that temptation is not in itself sin; on...
"Then." After the heavens opened, hell is opened. The King must not only be in perfect harmony with the order and beauty of the heavens, He must face all the disorder and ugliness of the abyss. Goodne...
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...
Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. The subject of CHRIST'S temptations, is a subject attended with much difficulty thoroughly to explain. One of the great ca...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_THE ATTACK ON DIVINE SONSHIP_ ‘And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to Him, he said, If Thou be the Son of God, command that the...
_‘THE SON OF GOD’_ ‘If Thou be the Son of God.’ Matthew 4:3 Our Lord at the baptism in Jordan had been conscious of new powers bestowed upon Him by the Spirit of God, and of a divine Voice which sa...
Matthew 4:3._And when he, who tempteth, had approached to him. _This name, ὁ πειράζων, _the tempter, _is given to Satan by the Spirit for the express purpose, that believers may be more carefully on t...
Having thus, in grace, taken up His position as man on earth, He commences His earthly career, being led of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. The righteous and holy man, the S...
AND WHEN THE TEMPTER CAME TO HIM..... By "the tempter", is meant the devil, see 1 Thessalonians 3:5 so called, because it is his principal work and business, in which he employs himself, to solicit me...
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Ver. 3. _Then came unto him the tempter_] ο πειραζων. So called, because he politicly fe...
_And when the tempter came to him_ In a visible shape and appearance, to tempt him outwardly, as he had done inwardly before. For it appears from the account which Mark and Luke have given us of this...
TEMPTER; Satan, the adversary of God and man, who solicits to evil, and suggests motives to induce men to commit it....
Of the many and various assaults which the devil employed during the forty days, Matthew and also Luke mention three incidents which took place at the end of this period. Note that the chronological s...
There could be no doubt therefore that He would fulfil this virtual pledge to bear their sins on Calvary. Notice too that the Father approves Him in this unqualified way before His being tested by Sat...
1-11 Concerning Christ's temptation, observe, that directly after he was declared to be the Son of God, and the Saviour of the world, he was tempted; great privileges, and special tokens of Divine fa...
AND WHEN THE TEMPTER, viz. Satan, the devil, as he is called, CAME UNTO HIM, probably in some visible shape, he, forming an audible voice of the air, said, IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, (not that he doub...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians But after His [lengthened] fast thou didst again assume thy wonted audacity, and didst tempt Him when hungry, as if He had been an ordinary man, not knowing who...
Matthew 4:3 Now G2532 tempter G3985 (G5723) came G4334 (G5631) Him G846 said G2036 (G5627) If...
JESUS FACES UP TO HIS FUTURE IN THE WILDERNESS (4:1-11). The most momentous moment of His conscious life to date having taken place, Jesus will now have to face up to what it involves. For having bee...
‘And the tempter came and said to him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” ' Then He became conscious of a malevolent presence, probably speaking in His mind. For fort...
The threefold temptation by Satan; the threefold victory over Satan. He who came ‘to destroy the works of the devil,' triumphs over him in personal conflict. This was the Messiah's _trial_ and _probat...
FIRST TEMPTATION. Matthew 4:3-4. IF THOU ART THE SON OF GOD. The emphasis rests on ‘Son.' On any theory the tempter meant by ‘Son,' what our Lord had been declared to be at His baptism. That he would...
IF THOU ART THE SON OF GOD (ε υιος ε του θεου). More exactly, "If thou art Son of God," for there is no article with "Son." The devil is alluding to the words of the Father to Jesus at the baptism:...
Matthew 4:1 I. One cannot help thinking and wondering why this temptation should take place, and though all the reasons cannot be known, some of them we think we can see. We know there is a devil. Per...
Matthew 4:1 The record of our Lord's temptation, which is specially commended to our consideration in Lent, must needs be momentous, first, in its import for the comprehension of the spirit of His mi...
Matthew 4:3 I. The first recorded trial of our Saviour connects itself no doubt with His recent fast or extreme abstemiousness of forty days. He was afterwards an hungred. "If Thou be the Son of God,...
Matthew 4:2 Observe: I. the depth of the intention of Satan's question. It opens at once a dilemma. Canst Thou be thus without bread, and yet be the Son of God? Nay, the thing is contradictory. "Give...
Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil._ He had just been baptized, the Spirit of God had descended upon him, and the Father had borne witnes...
Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil._ What a change it seems from the descent of the Holy Spirit to being led up into the wilderness to be...
CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus' public ministry begun. Call of first disciples. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Satan, John the Baptist, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is t...
Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit,_ υπο του πνευματος, the Holy Spirit, as indicated by the Greek article, and declared in the verses preseding. _Led into the wilderness,_ where he was...
THE DEVIL CAME TO HIM. He chose a time of physical weakness to press this temptation. It is uncertain whether Satan came in a personal form, or as the whisper of an evil spirit. IF YOU ARE GOD'S SON....
_If Thou be the Son of God._ -His object is to shake Christ’s confidence in the Fatherly character of God. (_Dr. Macleod._) Tempted to distrust the Divine Providence. (_Dr. Macleod_) AS THE DEVIL L...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:1 Jesus the Messiah Begins to Advance the Messianic Kingdom. Jesus triumphs over the devil in the wilderness (vv. Matthew 4:1), proclaims the kingdom
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:3 IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD. Despite the devil’s tempting offer, Jesus refused to use his divine power to make the trial any easier for himself....
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 _By the devil_. Syriac, _by the accuser_, Gr. _διάβολος_, _accuser_, _calumniator_. For Satan is he who accuses men before God perpetually, that he may gain them for himself and Gehenna. _T...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS—GENERAL REMARKS _There is only one way of understanding the narrative_, viz. as the history of a real occurrence, of an actual temptation of our Lord by the d...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 4:1 THE TEMPTATION. The Father's acceptance of the Lord's consecration of himself for the work of the kingdom does not exclude temptation, but rather necessitates it. Psychologica...
Chapter Four Then was Jesus led of the Spirit into the wilderness (Matthew 4:1) Immediately, He is now being led by the Spirit, walking after the Spirit. The New Testament has so much to say to us co...
1 Thessalonians 3:5; Exodus 16:3; Genesis 25:29; Genesis 3:1;...
THE TEMPTATION Matthew 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The temptation of Christ in the wilderness had no direct bearing upon our salvation, as we are saved by His Blood. However, the temptation did acclaim...
THE TEMPTATION (NO. 2) Matthew 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. "THEN" the word holds our attention. "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." The word "then" c...
Observe here, 1. The occasion of the temptation. 2. The temptation itself. The occasion was our Savior's hunger and want of bread. Learn thence, That when God suffers any of his dear children to fa...