Jesus answered. Jesus uses the "sword of the Spirit" [the Bible] as his weapon. He quotes Deuteronomy 8:3 LXX [read the context]. But on every word. God sustains on bread, but uses other means when it suits his purpose, He fed Israel on manna, sent by his word. We can trust his promise.
Verse Matthew 4:4. _BUT BY_ (or, _upon_, επι) _EVERY WORD_] ρημα, in Greek, answers to דבר _dabar_ in Hebrew, which means not only _a word_ _spoken_, but also _thing, purpose, appointment_, c. Our Lo...
BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID ... - In reply to this artful temptation Christ answered by a quotation from the Old Testament. The passage is found in Deuteronomy 8:3. In that place the discourse is respect...
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...
IT IS WRITTEN (Deuteronomy 8:3), MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE. The Lord uses the sword of the Spirit in his reply. The word quoted, found in Deuteronomy 8:3, should be used in its connection, in...
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...
IT IS WRITTEN. It standeth written. This is the Lord's first ministerial utterance; three times. Compare the last three (John 17:8; John 17:14; John 17:17). The appeal is not to the spoken voice ...
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....
Jesus answers by a quotation from Deuteronomy 8:3. The chapter sets forth the teaching of the wilderness. The forty years were to the Jews what the forty days are to Jesus. The Lord God proved Israel...
ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ. See note ch. Matthew 2:5. Jesus answers by a quotation from Deuteronomy 8:3. The chapter sets forth the teaching of the wilderness. The forty years were to the Jews what the forty days are...
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...
ΆΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part. от_ ΑΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать (_см._ Matthew 3:15). ΓΈΓΡΑΠΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΓΡΆΨΩ (G1125) писать; perf. "написано". έπ,= ΕΠΊ (G1909) с _dat._ To, на чем...
BUT BY EVERY WORD, &C.— _But by every thing which the mouth of God shall ordain._ Prussian Testament. The original, to which our version is agreeable, is a Hebrew expression, taken from Deuteronomy 8:...
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....
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID, IT IS WRITTEN ( ), MAN SHALL NOT LI...
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...
4:4 written, (f-7) Deuteronomy 8:3 ....
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...
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...
IT IS WRITTEN. — The words of all the three answers to the Tempter come from two Chapter s of Deuteronomy, one of which (Deuteronomy 6) supplied one of the passages (6:4-9) for the phylacteries or fro...
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....
_The Temptation_ (Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13)....
ὁ δὲ ἀποκ. εἶπεν : Christ's reply in this case as in the others is taken from Deuteronomy (Matthew 8:3, Sept [14]), which seems to have been one of His favourite books. Its humane spirit, with laws ev...
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...
Man liveth not by bread only. The words were spoken of the manna. (Deuteronomy viii. 3.) The sense in this place is, that man's life may be supported by any thing, or in any manner, as it pleaseth God...
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...
4._Man shall not live by bread alone. _He quotes the statement, that men _do not live by bread alone, _but by the secret blessing of God. Hence we conclude, that Satan made a direct attack on the fait...
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...
BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID, IT IS WRITTEN,.... The passage referred to, and cited, is in Deuteronomy 8:3 the manner of citing it is what was common and usual with the Jews; and is often to be met with i...
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Ver. 4. _But he answered and said, It is written_] "With his sor...
_It is written_ There is no better way of answering the tempter, than by opposing the word of God to his temptations. This is that sword of the Spirit that must put him to flight. The Church of Rome,...
IT IS WRITTEN; DEUTERONOMY 8:3. BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD; every appointment of God for this purpose. Matthew does not here quote the exact words, but the sense....
The Savior equal to the occasion: BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID, IT IS WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD. The most powerful and effective...
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...
So also LUKE 4:4. There is no better answering the tempter than by opposing the precepts of holy writ to his motions to sin. The word is called _the sword of the Spirit,_ EPHESIANS 6:17. The papists,...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II "For the righteous shall not live by bread."[15] Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III Notwithstanding let him read what follows: "For the righte...
Matthew 4:4 But G1161 answered G611 (G5679) said G2036 (G5627) written G1125 (G5769) Man G444 shall...
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...
‘But he answered and said, “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” ' But Jesus searched the Scriptures in His mind, especially cons...
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...
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...
Matthew 4:4. IT IS WRITTEN. ‘It has been and still is written,' is the full meaning of this phrase. Each suggestion was answered by a passage from Scripture. A hint to honor the Old Testament, which i...
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 4:1 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 4:2 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 4:4 I. God has appointed, under all ordinary circumstances, that we should sustain life by the secondary means of earthly food; but where He has placed man under special bonds of duty, and poi...
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...
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...
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...
_It is written._ THE INFALLIBLE BOOK The uses to which it may be put. Christ used it:- 1. To defend His Sonship; 2. To defeat temptation; 3. As a direction to His way; 4. For maintaining His own...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:4 IT IS WRITTEN. Jesus responds by quoting Deuteronomy 8:2....
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
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 Kings 17:12; 2 Kings 4:42; 2 Kings 7:1; 2 Kings 7:2; Deuteronomy 8:
It is written [γ ε γ ρ α π τ α ι]. The perfect tense. "It has been written, and stands written." The first recorded words of Jesus after his entrance upon his ministry are an assertion of the authorit...
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...
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...
It is written — Thus Christ answered, and thus we may answer all the suggestions of the devil. By every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God — That is, by whatever God commands to sustain him....
Observe here, The weapon which our Savior made use of to repel the temptation, and to vanquish the tempter and that is the word of God, IT IS WRITTEN. Learn, That the scripture, or the written word o...