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But he answered and said, It is written, Manh shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

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Deut. 8:3• ³And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. (Deut. 8:3)

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Matt. 4:7,10• ⁷Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
¹⁰Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. (Matt. 4:7,10)

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Luke 4:4,8,12• ⁴And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
⁸And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
¹²And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. (Luke 4:4,8,12)

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Rom. 15:4• ⁴For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. (Rom. 15:4)

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Eph. 6:17• ¹⁷And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: (Eph. 6:17)

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Deut. 8:3• ³And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. (Deut. 8:3)

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Luke 4:4• ⁴And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. (Luke 4:4)

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Matt. 14:16‑21• ¹⁶But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
¹⁷And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
¹⁸He said, Bring them hither to me.
¹⁹And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
²⁰And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
²¹And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children. (Matt. 14:16‑21)

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Ex. 16:8,15,35• ⁸And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.
¹⁵And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
³⁵And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. (Ex. 16:8,15,35)

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Ex. 23:15• ¹⁵Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) (Ex. 23:15)

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1 Kings 17:12‑16• ¹²And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
¹³And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
¹⁴For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
¹⁵And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
¹⁶And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah. (1 Kings 17:12‑16)

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2 Kings 4:42‑44• ⁴²And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
⁴³And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
⁴⁴So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord. (2 Kings 4:42‑44)

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2 Kings 7:1‑2• ¹Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
²Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. (2 Kings 7:1‑2)

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Hag. 2:16‑19• ¹⁶Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
¹⁷I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.
¹⁸Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider it.
¹⁹Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. (Hag. 2:16‑19)

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Mal. 3:9‑11• ⁹Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
¹⁰Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
¹¹And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts. (Mal. 3:9‑11)

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Mark 6:38‑44• ³⁸He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
³⁹And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
⁴⁰And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
⁴¹And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.
⁴²And they did all eat, and were filled.
⁴³And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
⁴⁴And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men. (Mark 6:38‑44)

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Mark 8:4‑9• ⁴And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
⁵And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
⁶And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.
⁷And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.
⁸So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.
⁹And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away. (Mark 8:4‑9)

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John 6:5‑15• ⁵When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?
⁶And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
⁷Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him,
⁹There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
¹⁰And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
¹¹And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
¹²When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
¹³Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
¹⁴Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
¹⁵When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. (John 6:5‑15)

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John 6:31‑59,63• ³¹Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
³²Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
³³For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
³⁴Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
³⁵And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
³⁶But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
³⁷All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
³⁸For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
³⁹And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
⁴⁰And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
⁴¹The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
⁴²And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
⁴³Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
⁴⁴No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
⁴⁶Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
⁴⁷Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
⁴⁸I am that bread of life.
⁴⁹Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
⁵⁰This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
⁵¹I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
⁵²The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
⁵³Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
⁵⁴Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
⁵⁵For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
⁵⁶He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
⁵⁷As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
⁵⁸This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
⁵⁹These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
⁶³It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (John 6:31‑59,63)

but.That is, as Dr. Campbell renders, "by every thing which God is pleased to appoint;" for [rhema ,] which generally signifies a word, is, by a Hebraism, here taken for a thing, like {davar,} in Hebrew.

• Our Lord refers to the chapter of Deuteronomy, that alludes to the manna, the daily food of Israel, which involved dependence upon God, and showed that Israel did not need the resources of the world to sustain them. (“Remarks on Matthew 4:1-11” by W. Kelly)

• And this was the first great temptation of the devil — the appeal to His earthly natural wants. It was no sin to be hungry; but it would have been a sin to distrust God because of the desert place. (“Remarks on Matthew 4:1-11” by W. Kelly)

• And it is the constant mark of the way of the Holy Ghost in the children of God that they do not use miraculous power for themselves or for their friends. (“Remarks on Matthew 4:1-11” by W. Kelly)

• Miracles had not in themselves the high character of exercising the soul in dependence upon God. To obey God, to submit to Him, to have confidence in Him, is that of which the natural man is incapable. (“Remarks on Matthew 4:1-11” by W. Kelly)

• God's word had led Him there, for the Holy Ghost acts by the word, and He would not leave the wilderness till God's word led Him out. This completely set aside Satan's temptations. But more: it brought out the real secret of living in dependence upon God day by day, for the food of the new life is the word of God. Of what immense importance this shows the written word to be, and having it as our household bread day by day; not merely reading it as a task or formal duty, but, as it is indeed, the divinely-suitable provision for the child of God! (“Remarks on Matthew 4:1-11” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But he answering said, It is writtenf, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God’s mouth.

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Deut. 8.3.

W. Kelly Translation

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But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God’s mouth.

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)