Matthew 4:4

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 4:1-4

Matthew 4:1-4 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 ministry, and secondly in its example to ourselves. I. Consider especially the first temptation, to turn the stones into loaves of bread. This, as we are expressly told, was addressed to our Lord's sense of physical necessity and suffering, combined with His consciousness of the possession of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 4:1-11

Matthew 4:1-11 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. Perhaps the most clever of all Satanic schemes is that in which he persuades men that he does not exist. What would suit a general better than to persuade the troops he is seeking to destroy that he is a mere creature of the imagination, that all the stories told about his being seen are mere... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 4:2-4

Matthew 4:2-4 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 up the thought of Thy Sonship." Satan's great aim is to cut off the sense of sonship, for he knows well how the peace and the holiness of every man depend upon the feeling himself the child of God. Therefore, he does everything in the world to check that confidence in a man's soul. II. What would... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 4:4

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 pointed out before him a course of action higher and nobler than the mere sustaining of the body, He can and will nourish him in this course of duty; or even if it should in its fulfilment wear out and bring to dissolution this physical frame, He can and will provide for that man's true life in a... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 4:1-25

Chapter FourThen 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 concerning the life of the Spirit and walking in the Spirit. There are so many people that put the emphasis upon the baptism of the Holy Spirit; where in reality, the emphasis should be upon the walk of the Spirit, not the gifts, not the phenomenon, not the excitement, not the manifestations. But the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 4:1-25

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 with the wild beasts. Mark 1:12-13. Here, like Moses on the mount, Exodus 24:0., the Saviour enjoyed abstraction from the world, and lived with the Father, without need of earthly food, as the saints shall live in heaven. Here also, as Moses received the law, so the Saviour received the new... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 4:4

Matthew 4:4It is written.The infallible bookThe 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 Spirit.How to handle the word:-1. With deepest reverence.2. Have it always ready.3. Understand its meaning.4. Learn to appropriate Scripture to yourself.5. Stand by the Scriptures, whatever they may cost you. (C. H. Spurgeon.)The Bible a moral defence. We read that Oliver Cromwell had in his army one... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 4:4

4 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 sore and great and strong sword" of the Spirit doth the Lord here "punish leviathan, that crooked piercing serpent," Isaiah 27:7 . With these shafts out of God’s quiver, with these pebbles chosen out of the silver streams of the Scriptures, doth he prostrate the Goliah of hell. The word of God hath... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 4:4

It is: Matthew 4:7, Matthew 4:10, Luke 4:4, Luke 4:8, Luke 4:12, Romans 15:4, Ephesians 6:17 Man: Deuteronomy 8:3, Luke 4:4 but: Matthew 14:16-Ecclesiastes :, Exodus 16:8, Exodus 16:15, Exodus 16:35, Exodus 23:15, 1 Kings 17:12-Nehemiah :, 2 Kings 4:42-Acts :, 2 Kings 7:1, 2 Kings 7:2, Haggai 2:16-Psalms :, Malachi 3:9-1 Kings :, Mark 6:38-Acts :, Mark 8:4-1 Samuel :, John 6:5-Ezra :, John 6:31-James :, John 6:63 but: That is, as Dr. Campbell renders, "by every thing which God is pleased to... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 4:4

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.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. Therefore it is not needful I should work a miracle to procure bread, without any intimation of my Father's will. Deuteronomy 8:3. read more

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