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. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. The apostles "straightway" (right away, immediately) left their nets and followed Jesus. To follow their example, I need to consider (1) what "nets" I need to immediately leave behind, and (2) what new activities and attitudes I should embrace to replace "fishing". The apostles would have led unfulfilled, hungry lives if they had not replaced their fishing careers with their callings as fishers of men. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Just as the scribes and Pharisees attempted to trap Jesus by asking whether the woman taken in adultery should be stoned, Satan attempted to trap Christ. Satan tempted Christ to display his power over nature and authority as God's Son by turning the stones into bread. Yet the act of turning the stones into bread at Satan's request would, in fact, have negated his divinity. "It would have been an act of self-assertion and distrust, and therefore would have involved not the affirmation, but the denial of the Sonship which had so recently been attested." (See http://biblehub.com/commentaries/matthew/4-3.htm.)
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