Matthew 04:07 … “Again it is written, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”

According to Matthew, Jesus spoke these words after the second temptation. Jesus was quoting Deuteronomy 6:16. Luke 4:12 is a synoptic gospel parallel. A similar passage is Isaiah 7:12 which occurs two verses before one of the most famous Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament.

Isaiah 7:12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test." 13 And he said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Jesus didn’t need a sign that God loved Him, Jesus was the sign that God loved the world.

J. Clontz – Editor of The Comprehensive New Testament

Matthew 04:04… “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”

These words were spoken by Jesus in response to the first temptation by Satan. Jesus quoted a portion of Deuteronomy 8:3 – “And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.” All three of Jesus’ responses to the temptations by Satan were quotations from Deuteronomy.

J. Clontz – Editor of The Comprehensive New Testament

Matthew 3:15 … “Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”

Jesus spoke these words to John the Baptist before John baptized Him. Notice that Jesus includes John in “fulfilling all righteousness.” John’s ministry eventually cost him his life, but before it did he revealed the Lamb of God to Israel. 

J. Clontz – Editor of The Comprehensive New Testament

Luke 02:49 … “Why did you seek me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

In the four gospels, these are the first words depicted as spoken by Jesus. The setting was inside the temple and Jesus who was twelve years old at the time was speaking to Mary and Joseph. Jesus’ first recorded statement was Messianic in nature and preceded the start of His ministry by eighteen years. Jesus returned to the temple at both the start and the end of his ministry and purged the temple each time. During the first purging of the temple, Jesus’ also referred to the temple as His Father’s house.  

J. Clontz – Editor of The Comprehensive New Testament