What does Matthew 4:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"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."
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 Lor...
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...
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 (Matt...
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....
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 da...
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...
_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; o...
"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 Go...
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 awa...
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 G2198 not G3756 live G2198 (G5695) by G1909 bread G740 alone G3441 but G235 by G1909 every G3956 wor...
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...
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 4:1 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. _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...
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...
_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 4:1 Jesus the Messiah Begins to Advance the Messianic Kingdom. Jesus triumphs over the devil in the wilderness (vv. Matthew 4:1), proclaims the kingdom of God (vv. Matthew 4:12...
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 to be tempted of the devil. Mark 1:12 And immediately the...
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. _...
_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 c...
1 Kings 17:12; 2 Kings 4:42; 2 Kings 7:1; 2 Kings 7:2; Deuteronomy 8:3; Ephesians 6:17; Exodus 16:15; Exodus 16:35; Exodus 16:8; Exodus 23:15
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 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...