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written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. The World English Bible translates the passage as: But he answered, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’" The 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek text is:
In response to Satan's suggestion, Jesus replies, "It is written: Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" (a reference to Deuteronomy 8:3). [34] [35] Only in Matthew's gospel is this entire sentence written.
However, "Not by bread alone" is a quote which appears once in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and twice in the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) and reads in the King James Version as follows: 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.
Christ should have turned stones into bread, as men will always follow those who will feed their bellies, and will also follow him who they see is capable of producing miracles. The Inquisitor recalls how Christ rejected this, saying "man cannot live on bread alone", and explains to Christ: "Feed men, and then ask of them virtue!
The standard loaf of bread in this period was a round, flat loaf, and it seems likely that the stones being referred to in this verse are of a similar size and shape. [ 4 ] This is the second mention in Matthew of stones being transformed, with stones to people being threatened in Matthew 3:9 .
This is not Jesus' intention, so he leaves "again" (verse 15) to spend time alone on the mountain (John 6:14–15), staying until evening. Some copies add "and he prayed there". Lutheran theologian Harold H. Buls considers that "this event must have been a great source of temptation, and therefore He needed to pray.
"He who doesn't work, doesn't eat" – Soviet poster issued in Uzbekistan, 1920. He who does not work, neither shall he eat is an aphorism from the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle, later cited by John Smith in the early 1600s colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and broadly by the international socialist movement, from the United States [1] to the communist revolutionary ...
God subjected them to hunger and then gave them manna to teach them that man does not live on bread alone, but on what God decrees. [13] Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell for 40 years. [14] God disciplined them as a man disciplines his son. [15]