Matt 4:4 Cross References

Matthew 4:4

4: But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, 'People need more than bread for their life; they must feed on every word of God.'"

Deuteronomy 8:3

  1. Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people need more than bread for their life; real life comes by feeding on every word of the LORD.

Luke 4:4

  1. But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, 'People need more than bread for their life.'"

John 6:31

  1. After all, our ancestors ate manna while they journeyed through the wilderness! As the Scriptures say, 'Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"
  2. Jesus said, "I assure you, Moses didn't give them bread from heaven. My Father did. And now he offers you the true bread from heaven.
  3. The true bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
  4. "Sir," they said, "give us that bread every day of our lives."
  5. Jesus replied, "I am the bread of life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry again. Those who believe in me will never thirst.

John 6:63

  1. It is the Spirit who gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Romans 15:4

  1. Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. They give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God's promises.

Ephesians 6:17

  1. Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Exodus 16:15

  1. The Israelites were puzzled when they saw it. "What is it?" they asked. And Moses told them, "It is the food the LORD has given you.

Exodus 16:35

  1. So the people of Israel ate manna for forty years until they arrived in the land of Canaan, where there were crops to eat.

Luke 4:8

  1. Jesus replied, "The Scriptures say, 'You must worship the Lord your God; serve only him.'"

John 6:5

  1. Jesus soon saw a great crowd of people climbing the hill, looking for him. Turning to Philip, he asked, "Philip, where can we buy bread to feed all these people?"
  2. He was testing Philip, for he already knew what he was going to do.
  3. Philip replied, "It would take a small fortune to feed them!"
  4. Then Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up.
  5. "There's a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that with this huge crowd?"

Matthew 4:10

  1. "Get out of here, Satan," Jesus told him. "For the Scriptures say, 'You must worship the Lord your God; serve only him.'"

Exodus 16:8

  1. The LORD will give you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning, for he has heard all your complaints against him. Yes, your complaints are against the LORD, not against us."

Matthew 4:7

  1. Jesus responded, "The Scriptures also say, 'Do not test the Lord your God.'"

2 Kings 7:1

  1. Elisha replied, "Hear this message from the LORD! This is what the LORD says: By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, five quarts of fine flour will cost only half an ounce of silver, and ten quarts of barley grain will cost only half an ounce of silver. "
  2. The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, "That couldn't happen even if the LORD opened the windows of heaven!" But Elisha replied, "You will see it happen, but you won't be able to eat any of it!"

Luke 4:12

  1. Jesus responded, "The Scriptures also say, 'Do not test the Lord your God.'"

Matthew 14:16

  1. But Jesus replied, "That isn't necessary--you feed them."
  2. "Impossible!" they exclaimed. "We have only five loaves of bread and two fish!"
  3. "Bring them here," he said.
  4. Then he told the people to sit down on the grass. And he took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and asked God's blessing on the food. Breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave some of the bread and fish to each disciple, and the disciples gave them to the people.
  5. They all ate as much as they wanted, and they picked up twelve baskets of leftovers.

Malachi 3:9

  1. You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me.
  2. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do," says the LORD Almighty, "I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Let me prove it to you!
  3. Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease. Your grapes will not shrivel before they are ripe," says the LORD Almighty.

Mark 8:4

  1. "How are we supposed to find enough food for them here in the wilderness?" his disciples asked.
  2. "How many loaves of bread do you have?" he asked. "Seven," they replied.
  3. So Jesus told all the people to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, thanked God for them, broke them into pieces, and gave them to his disciples, who distributed the bread to the crowd.
  4. A few small fish were found, too, so Jesus also blessed these and told the disciples to pass them out.
  5. They ate until they were full, and when the scraps were picked up, there were seven large baskets of food left over!

2 Kings 4:42

  1. One day a man from Baal-shalishah brought the man of God a sack of fresh grain and twenty loaves of barley bread made from the first grain of his harvest. Elisha said, "Give it to the group of prophets so they can eat."
  2. "What?" his servant exclaimed. "Feed one hundred people with only this?" But Elisha repeated, "Give it to the group of prophets so they can eat, for the LORD says there will be plenty for all. There will even be some left over!"
  3. And sure enough, there was plenty for all and some left over, just as the LORD had promised.

1 Kings 17:12

  1. But she said, "I swear by the LORD your God that I don't have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die."
  2. But Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid! Go ahead and cook that `last meal,' but bake me a little loaf of bread first. Afterward there will still be enough food for you and your son.
  3. For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: There will always be plenty of flour and oil left in your containers until the time when the LORD sends rain and the crops grow again!"
  4. So she did as Elijah said, and she and Elijah and her son continued to eat from her supply of flour and oil for many days.
  5. For no matter how much they used, there was always enough left in the containers, just as the LORD had promised through Elijah.

Exodus 23:15

  1. The first is the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast, just as I commanded you before. This festival will be an annual event at the appointed time in early spring, for that is the anniversary of your exodus from Egypt. Everyone must bring me a sacrifice at that time.

Haggai 2:16

  1. When you hoped for a twenty-bushel crop, you harvested only ten. When you expected to draw fifty gallons from the winepress, you found only twenty.
  2. I sent blight and mildew and hail to destroy all the produce of your labor. Yet, even so, you refused to return to me, says the LORD.
  3. "On this eighteenth day of December--the day when the foundation of the LORD's Temple was laid--carefully consider this:
  4. I am giving you a promise now while the seed is still in the barn, before you have harvested your grain and before the grapevine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have produced their crops. From this day onward I will bless you."

Mark 6:38

  1. "How much food do you have?" he asked. "Go and find out." They came back and reported, "We have five loaves of bread and two fish."
  2. Then Jesus told the crowd to sit down in groups on the green grass.
  3. So they sat in groups of fifty or a hundred.
  4. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and asked God's blessing on the food. Breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread and fish to the disciples to give to the people.
  5. They all ate as much as they wanted,
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