He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:3

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Matthew 4:1-4

Jesus, tempted by the Devil in the wilderness with the natural and strong desire of hunger, recognized a sin when he saw one. Knowing the example of the sinners who ate manna and forgot God, he remembered the promises of the Lord and lived, though he did not eat.

God sustained the sinners in the desert with a miracle that their ancestors never imagined and their children’s children would only know from stories. Who can be surprised then, when the sinless one, the son of God himself, would be sustained and satisfied by the word of God. He is the one who is called the Word and by his power, we are filled with eternal food so that we will never lack for anything.

Ethan Kirl