📊 Matthew 4:4 | Greek, Bread and Trivia

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📧 In today’s email…

• 🥖 The Greek word for bread

• 🤔 A reflection question

• 📊 Tuesday Trivia

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 🧠 Memorize

_{see if you know what words go in the blanks}

___ __ ______, “__ __ _____,

“‘___ shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Matthew 4:4

Original Language 🇬🇷 

The Greek word translated as ‘bread’ is ‘artos’.

• Bread was significant & central to the daily lives of Israelites in biblical times (in both the Old and New Testaments)

• It was a dietary staple, carried symbolic meaning in religious life & sacrifices, and is a common image we see throughout Scripture

Consider just a few examples of the significance of bread:

• Passover: unleavened bread

• Jesus teaching us to pray, “Give us Lord our daily bread”

• Jesus saying, “I am the bread of life”

• The Last Supper: Jesus breaking bread and referring to it as his body

• Jesus’ miracles involving bread and fish

• Jesus’ warning against the ‘yeast of the Pharisees’

And as we’ll see tomorrow, the enemy tempts Jesus to use his power to turn rocks into bread in order to provide sustenance for himself in the desert.

Apply & Respond 🙏 

When we feel like our relationship with God is distant (aka spiritually malnourished), sometimes it’s simply because we have not been spiritually “eating.”

Reflect 🙏 

What’s one thing God is inviting you to do in response to Matthew 4:4 this week?

Tuesday Trivia 📊 

Click one of the options below! Let’s see how you do..

Answer key ✅ 

But he answered, “It is written,

“‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Matthew 4:4

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