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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit,.... The Evangelist having finished his account of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ; of his ministry and baptism; and particularly of the baptism of Christ; when the Holy Ghost came down upon him in a visible and eminent manner; whereby he was anointed for his public work, according to Isaiah 61:1...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
John Baptist said concerning Christ, He must increase, but I must decrease; and so it proved. For, after John had baptized Christ, and borne his testimony to him, we hear little more of his ministry; he had done what he came to do, and thenceforward there is as much talk of Jesus as ever there had been of John. As the rising Sun advances, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 tempted of the devil! Dear friends, be especially on the watch after a great spiritual joy, for it is just then that you may have some terrible temptation. Mayhap,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 witness to him, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” yet, immediately after all that, he was led into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he had fasted forty days..... As Moses did, when he was about to deliver the law to the Israelites, Exodus 34:28 and as Elijah did, when he bore his testimony for the Lord of hosts, 1 Kings 19:8 so did Christ, when he was about to publish the Gospel of his grace, and bear witness to the truth. "Forty nights" as well as days, are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. I suppose that he was not “an hungered” during his long fast, and this renders it a fast altogether by itself. We are here told, “He was afterward an hungered.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, See how Satan seizes opportunities. When he finds us weak, as the Saviour was through long fasting; — when he finds us in trying circumstances, as the Saviour was when hungry in the desert; — then it is that he comes to tempt us. This...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 men to sin; and tempt them either to deny, or call in question the being of God, arraign his perfections, murmur at his providences, and disbelieve his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. “Thou canst do it if thou art indeed the Son of God. Thou art an hungered, therefore feed thyself, Thy Father has forgotten thee, his providence has failed thee; be thine own providence, work a miracle for thyself.” How little the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made into bread. He begins with an “if.” He tries to cast a doubt upon the Saviour’s Sonship, and this is the way that he often attacks a child of God now. He says to him, “If thou be a son of God, do so-and-so.” He challenged Christ to work a miracle for himself, — to use his divine...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But he answered and said, it is written,.... The passage referred to, and cited, is in Deuteronomy 8:3 the manner of citing it is what was common and usual with the Jews; and is often to be met with in the Talmudic writings; who, when they produce any passage of scripture, say דכתיב, "as it is written". The meaning of this scripture is; not that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. He had been attached as a man who was hungering, so he quoted a text which evidently belonged to man: “Man shall not live by bread alone.” It was a wilderness text; it concerned the children of Israel in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he answered and said, It is written, — That is the only sword that Christ used against Satan, — “the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.” There is nothing like it; and the old dragon himself knows what sharp edges this sword has. Christ said, “It is written,” — Mat_4:4. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then the devil taketh him up,.... This was done, not in a visionary way, but really and truly: Satan, by divine permission, and with the consent of Christ, which shows his great humiliation and condescension, had power over his body, to move it from place to place; in some such like manner as the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, Acts 8:39 he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and 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. “It is written.” Thus...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple. And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written,— Here he plays with the Word of God, for the devil can quote Scripture when it suits his purpose to do so: “It is written,” —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And saith unto him, if thou be the Son of God,.... He addresses him after the same manner as before; if, or seeing, thou art the Son of God, show thyself to be so; give proof of thy sonship before all the priests which are in and about the temple, and before all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; cast thyself down that is, from the pinnacle of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. The devil did not quote correctly from Psa_91:11-12; he left out the most important words: “He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways,” but it was not Christ’s way to cast...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jesus saith unto him, it is written again,.... Christ takes no notice of the false and wrong citation of scripture made by the devil, nor of any misapplication of it; but mildly replies, by opposing another passage of scripture to him, Deuteronomy 6:16 ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, thereby tacitly showing, that he had produced scripture to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus said onto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Here was a plain, positive precept, which clearly forbade Christ to tempt God by such a presumptuous action as casting himself down from the pinnacle of the temple; and we must always follow the precepts of Scripture whatever the tempter may say.