did not perform the miracle, for he knew that he would be sustained by God; following the temptation, “angels came and ministered to him” (Matt. 4:11). The complete dependence on the word of God and God’s ability to provide is always a hard lesson for man to learn, whether in ancient times or modern. Man knows that he must work in order to provide the essentials for physical existence, but in that very labor, he may easily forget that, in the last resort, it is God who makes provision for man’s life.