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F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Matthew 4:1-11

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; only when the evil suggestions of the tempter are harbored do they become sin. Notice also that all around us is a dark region of evil, out of which temptations arise. Whenever you have received a conspicuous revelation, you may expect a time of testing. This is God’s way of rooting the trees in the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 4:1-25

"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. Goodness at its highest He knows, and is; evil at its lowest He must face, and overcome. And so in the wilderness He stands as humanity's representative between the two, responding to the one and refusing the other. How gloriously He won the battle and bruised the head of the serpent. Every vulnerable... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Matthew 4:1-11

The Temptation (No. 2) Matthew 4:1-11 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" carries with it a most suggestive meaning. (1) It carries us back to the baptismal scene. It shows the Saviour coming to John and requesting baptism. It reveals the voice of God, immediately after the baptism, as He proclaims, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." The baptism of the... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:2-4

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 these stones be made bread. 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.’ Matthew 4:2-Numbers : Herein Christ and Satan represent two great antagonistic principles. The whole object of Christ is to unite God and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 4:1-11

Analysis (4:1-11). a Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, and when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered (Matthew 4:1-2). b And the Tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread” (Matthew 4:3). c 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” (Matthew 4:4). b Then the devil... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 4:1-25

SECTION 2. THE BIRTH AND RISE OF JESUS THE MESSIAH (THE CHRIST) (1:18-4:25). In this section, following the introduction, Matthew reveals the greatness of Jesus the Christ. He will now describe the unique birth of Jesus, the homage paid to Him by important Gentiles, His exile and protection in Egypt followed by His subsequent bringing forth out of Egypt to reside in lowly Nazareth, His being drenched with the Holy Spirit as God’s beloved Son and Servant, His temptations in the wilderness which... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 4:4

‘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 conscious that He was in the wilderness as His people had once been, and no doubt guided by the Spirit, and He found what He sought. Bread is good, and man needs bread. But bread is not the most important thing in life. More important is it to feed on and obey the words of God. The basis for the words... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 4:1-11

Matthew 4:1-1 Kings : . The Temptation ( Mark 1:12 f.*, Luke 4:1-1 Chronicles : *).— Jesus’ sudden recognition of His Sonship or Messiah-ship and of the responsibility thus laid upon Him, found natural expression in His retirement into solitude. In the dreary wilderness of Judæ a (p. 31), which overhangs the north of the Dead Sea, He grapples with the problem of what is involved in being God’ s Son, of how the Messiah must do God’ s will. The narrative is taken (as in Lk.) from Q. There are... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 4:4

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, therefore, denying people the use of the word, disarm them as to the spiritual combat. It is written Deuteronomy 8:3. Though man ordinarily liveth by common bread, such food as men usually eat, yet God’s power is not restrained, he can uphold the life of man when that is wanting, as he supported the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 4:1-11

CRITICAL NOTESTHE TEMPTATION OF JESUS—GENERAL REMARKSThere 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 devil as a person. Such a history it is clearly the intention of the Evangelist to give; and the only difficulty which this interpretation has, peculiar to itself, is that it presupposes two things, which are also presupposed throughout the rest of Scripture: the possibility of the supernatural, and the... read more

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Matthew 4:1-11

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Matthew 4:1-25

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Matthew 4:1-11

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 4:2-4

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 4:1-11

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 4:1-25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 4:4

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 4:1-11

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 4:4

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 4:1-11

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