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Answering the tempter with Deuteronomy
Each of the three temptations is answered with a sentence from Deuteronomy, the book that recounts Israel's forty years of testing in the wilderness. Jesus stands where Israel stood and does not fall.
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A New Testament passage quotes an earlier passage.
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New TestamentMatthew 4:4Open this recordRead the earlier witness
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Read the later witness
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Why FaithGraph draws this line
Matthew 4:4 quotes Deuteronomy 8:3.
Jesus answers the first temptation with Moses's words about living by every word from the mouth of God.
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