his hunger. “God’s powerful Son ought not go hungry,” Satan suggested. Satan did not doubt Jesus’ sonship or his ability to turn stones to bread. Instead, he wanted Jesus to use his power in the wrong way at the wrong time—to use his position to meet his own needs rather than to fulfill his God-given mission. In later miracles Jesus did supply baskets full of bread, but he supplied them for a hungry crowd, not to satisfy himself. And he did the miracles according to God’s perfect timing for God’s
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