Where is it in the Bible?
Matthew 4:4
4Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
In other translations
- ESV
- 4But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
- NLT
- 4But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, 'People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
- CSB
- 4He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
- KJV
- 4But 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.
The surrounding passage
Matthew 4:2–6, King James Version
2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4But 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.
5Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Context
Jesus has fasted forty days and nights in the wilderness, and the devil tempts him to turn stones into bread (4:1–3). Jesus answers by quoting Deuteronomy 8:3, where Moses reminds Israel that God fed them with manna in the wilderness. Jesus answers all three temptations in this chapter with words from Deuteronomy.
About the book of Matthew
Jesus the promised King, from Bethlehem to the Great Commission.
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