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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 the manna, which thou hadst not known, and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live. (Deut. 8:3)

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Matt. 4:7,10• ⁷Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
¹⁰Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve. (Matt. 4:7,10)

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Luke 4:4,8,12• ⁴And Jesus answered unto him saying, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
⁸And Jesus answering him said, It is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.
¹²And Jesus answering said to 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 as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. (Rom. 15:4)

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Eph. 6:17• ¹⁷Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word; (Eph. 6:17)

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Deut. 8:3• ³And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with the manna, which thou hadst not known, and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live. (Deut. 8:3)

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Luke 4:4• ⁴And Jesus answered unto him saying, It is written, 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 to them, They have no need to go: give *ye* them to eat.
¹⁷But they say to him, We have not here save five loaves and two fishes.
¹⁸And he said, Bring them here to me.
¹⁹And having commanded the crowds to recline upon the grass, having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed: and having broken the loaves, he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
²⁰And all ate and were filled, and they took up what was over and above of fragments twelve hand-baskets full.
²¹But those that had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children. (Matt. 14:16‑21)

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Ex. 16:8,15,35• ⁸And Moses said, When Jehovah gives you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for Jehovah hears your murmurings which ye murmur against him … and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah.
¹⁵And the children of Israel saw it, and said one to another, What is it? for they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, This is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat.
³⁵And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came into an inhabited land: they ate the manna until they came to 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 have commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear in my presence empty;) (Ex. 23:15)

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1 Kings 17:12‑16• ¹²And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a 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 to her, Fear not; go, do as thou hast said; but make me thereof a little cake first; and bring it to me; and afterwards make for thee and for thy son.
¹⁴For thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: The meal in the barrel shall not waste, neither shall the oil in the cruse fail, until the day that Jehovah sendeth rain upon the face of the earth!
¹⁵And she went and did according to the word of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate a whole year.
¹⁶The meal in the barrel did not waste, neither did the oil in the cruse fail, according to the word of Jehovah which he had spoken through Elijah. (1 Kings 17:12‑16)

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2 Kings 4:42‑44• ⁴²And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack. And he said, Give to the people that they may eat.
⁴³And his attendant said, How shall I set this before a hundred men? And he said, Give the people that they may eat; for thus saith Jehovah: They shall eat, and shall have to spare.
⁴⁴And he set it before them, and they ate and left thereof, according to the word of Jehovah. (2 Kings 4:42‑44)

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2 Kings 7:1‑2• ¹And Elisha said, Hear the word of Jehovah. Thus saith Jehovah: To-morrow about this time shall the measure of fine flour be at a shekel, and two measures of barley at a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
²And the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in the heavens, would 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• ¹⁶--before those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the vat to draw out fifty press-measures, there were but twenty.
¹⁷I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah.
¹⁸Consider, I pray you, from this day and onward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider it.
¹⁹Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have 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; and me ye rob, even this whole nation.
¹⁰Bring the whole tithe into the treasure-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I open not to you the windows of the heavens, and pour you out a blessing, till there be no place for 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 its fruit before the time in the field, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:9‑11)

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Mark 6:38‑44• ³⁸And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? Go and see. And when they knew they say, Five, and two fishes.
³⁹And he ordered them to make them all sit down by companies on the green grass.
⁴⁰And they sat down in ranks by hundreds and by fifties.
⁴¹And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples that they might set them before them. And the two fishes he divided among all.
⁴²And they all ate and were satisfied.
⁴³And they took up of fragments the fillings of twelve hand-baskets, and of the fishes.
⁴⁴And those that ate of the loaves were five thousand men. (Mark 6:38‑44)

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Mark 8:4‑9• ⁴And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to satisfy these with bread here in a desert place?
⁵And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
⁶And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. And having taken the seven loaves, he gave thanks, and broke them and gave them to his disciples, that they might set them before them; and they set them before the crowd.
⁷And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed them, he desired these also to be set before them.
⁸And they ate and were satisfied. And they took up of fragments that remained 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• ⁵Jesus then, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great crowd is coming to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these may eat?
⁶But this he said trying him, for he knew what he was going to do.
⁷Philip answered him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not sufficient for them, that each may have some little portion.
⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, says to him,
⁹There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many?
¹⁰And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place: the men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.
¹¹And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, distributed them to those that were set down; and in like manner of the small fishes as much as they would.
¹²And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost.
¹³They gathered them therefore together, and filled twelve hand-baskets full of fragments of the five barley loaves, which were over and above to those that had eaten.
¹⁴The men therefore, having seen the sign which Jesus had done, said, This is truly the prophet which is coming into the world.
¹⁵Jesus therefore knowing that they were going to come and seize him, that they might make him king, departed again to the mountain himself alone. (John 6:5‑15)

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John 6:31‑59,63• ³¹Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.
³²Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, It is not Moses that has given you the bread out of heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
³³For the bread of God is he who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
³⁴They said therefore to him, Lord, ever give to us this bread.
³⁵And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst at any time.
³⁶But I have said to you, that ye have also seen me and do not believe.
³⁷All that the Father gives me shall come to me, and him that comes to me I will not at all cast out.
³⁸For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do *my* will, but the will of him that has sent me.
³⁹And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.
⁴⁰For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day.
⁴¹The Jews therefore murmured about him, because he said, I am the bread which has come down out of heaven.
⁴²And they said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then does *he* say, I am come down out of heaven?
⁴³Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among yourselves.
⁴⁴No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father himself, and has learned of him, comes to me;
⁴⁶not that any one has seen the Father, except he who is of God, he has seen the Father.
⁴⁷Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes on me has life eternal.
⁴⁸I am the bread of life.
⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.
⁵⁰This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
⁵¹I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
⁵²The Jews therefore contended among themselves, saying, How can he give us this flesh to eat?
⁵³Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.
⁵⁴He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up at the last day:
⁵⁵for my flesh is truly food and my blood is truly drink.
⁵⁶He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I in him.
⁵⁷As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, *he* also who eats me shall live also on account of me.
⁵⁸This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eats this bread shall live for ever.
⁵⁹These things he said in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.
⁶³It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and 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.)