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|[[File:matthew.jpg|center|thumb|Matthew's writings of the [[Gospel of the kingdom]] were inspired. But what do they really tell us in the context of the times and the precepts of the [[kingdom of God]]?]]
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| '''Comments''' 
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| Led by the Spirit to be [[temptations|tempted]].
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| V3 [[stones]] turned into bread for whom? Were these stones  living stones?
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| V4 The desire for [[free bread]] especially through [[covetous practices]] at the expense of your neighbor is the root cause of corruption of man and often is made manifest through [[legal charity]] and men who [[exercise authority]].
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|'''"The [[evil]] was not in the [[free bread|bread and circuses]], per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which [[bread and circuses]] can never appease."''' Marcus Tullius [[Cicero]]<br>
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| Understanding  the metaphor of "[[stones]] being made into [[daily bread|bread]]" is easier if we understand that the [[Altars]] of [[clay and stone]] were a form of the [[social safety net]] dependent upon [[freewill offerings]] of the Old Testament and what the New Testament calls [[charity]]. Those [[altars]] of [[Pure Religion]] promoted by [[Abraham]] and [[Moses]] were used by society according to the perfect law of liberty ''[[Romans 13|letting every soul remain subject to the higher liberty]]'' to avoid the [[covetous practices]], [[wages of unrighteousness]] which are the [[snare]] of [[legal charity]]. and the structure of government intended by God, the [[Son of God]], and [[Moses]], which was  a form of the ancient [[Libera res publica]].
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| [[Augustus Caesar]], who also was called the [[Son of God]], campaigned on the political platform of a "return to the [[republic]]" and "family values". Yet, he continued with the plunder of national neighbors and the funding of [[legal charity]] through their public [[temples]] until the '''[[masses]]''' developed an [[appetite]] for [[benefits]] becoming ''accustomed to living at the expense of others and depending for their livelihood on the property of others''. This of course as predicted by [[Polybius]] and other prophets began to [[degenerate]] the people.
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| Jesus will foretell the taking of the kingdom from the [[pharisees]] in [[Matthew 21]]<Ref>[[Matthew 21]]:43  Therefore say I unto you, The [[kingdom of God]] shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the [[fruit]]s thereof.</Ref>
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| '''Questions'''
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| What does it mean to [[worship]]?
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| How did the [[Rabbinical Baptism]] of the ancients, the [[baptism]] of [[Herod]] differ from the baptism of John and Jesus at [[Pentecost]]?
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| Was the ministry of Jesus one of [[Pure Religion]]?
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| Was [[Nazareth]] a place or a [[polis]] of the [[Essenes]]?
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== The Temptation of Jesus ==

[1] Then was Jesus led<Ref name="anago">{{321}}</Ref> up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

[2] And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

=== Stones to bread ===

[3] And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the [[Son of God]], command that these stones be made bread.

[[Matthew 4]]:4 But he answered and said, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'''</span> 

=== Do not tempt God ===

[5]  Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6  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. 7 Jesus said unto him, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.''' </span> 

=== Worship God ===

[8]  Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the [[world]], and the glory of them;  

[9]  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and [[worship]] me. 

[10] Then saith Jesus unto him, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Get thee hence, [[Satan]]: for it is written, Thou shalt [[worship]] the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.''' </span>

[11] Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

== Jesus Begins His Ministry ==

[12] Now when Jesus had heard that [[John the Baptist|John]] was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;

[13] And leaving [[Nazareth]], he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:

[14] That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

[15] The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;

[16] The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

[17] From that time [[Jesus]] began to preach, and to say, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''[[Repent]]: for the [[kingdom of heaven]] is at hand.'''</span>

== Jesus Calls the First Disciples ==

[18] And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

[19] And he saith unto them, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.'''</span>

[20] And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

[21] And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

[22] And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

== Jesus Ministers to Great Crowds ==

[23] And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their [[synagogue]]s, and preaching the [[gospel of the kingdom]], and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

[24] And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

[25] And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.<br>
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