The above verse is quoted by Jesus when Satan tempted Christ to use His power to create to satisfy the needs of His flesh rather than to use His power to bring God the glory for doing the Will of the Father. The verse which Christ quoted to Satan comes from the following verse in the book of Deuteronomy : “And He humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every Word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.” (Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV).
It is interesting to me that in a day and age when we see the cheap and unbiblical prosperity Gospel being espoused by many, that here is a clear case of Jesus Christ quoting Scripture which very clearly states that at times God humbles us, even allows us to hunger, that He might feed us with the feast of Truth we find within the pages of Scripture. God took the Israelite slaves and freed them from Egypt, but that was the easy part. The harder part was to free them from the thinking they had become enslaved by.
The nation of Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years before they fina ...
