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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_that these stones be made bread_ The temptation is addressed to the
appetite, Use thy divine power to satisfy the lusts of the flesh....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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_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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_First temptation_, through hunger....
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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...
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_The Temptation_ (Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13)....
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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TEMPTER; Satan, the adversary of God and man, who solicits to evil,
and suggests motives to induce men to commit it....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Matthew 4:3 Now G2532 tempter G3985 (G5723) came G4334 (G5631) Him
G846 said G2036 (G5627) If...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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....
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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
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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
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Thessalonians 3:5; Exodus 16:3; Genesis 25:29; Genesis 3:1;...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...