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Matthew 4:1-11 (ESV)

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written,

“‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,

“‘He will command his angels concerning you,’

and

“‘On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”

Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written,

“‘You shall worship the Lord your God
and him only shall you serve.’”

Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.

Now, as the Son of God, Jesus was certainly able to turn stones into bread. It was within his power to do so.

The quintessential Can-Do man. Filled with the Spirit of God, what *doesn't* he know how to do?

It runs in the family. Like father like son.

Chip off the old block..

David -- the world's most famous statue -- was carved from the stone rejected and abandoned by the first two sculptors for being flawed and difficult to work with.

The attitude of Michelangelo -- "Can Do!" and the rest is history. Psalm 118:22,

"The stone the builders refused is become the head of the corner."

~ King David

He will command his angels concerning you...

You betcha. Holiness has a certain cause and effect.

In fact, think of it: Later on, Jesus will have no problem turning a few loaves into enough bread to feed thousands of people.

Turns out that with modern analysis, it was revealed that the stone that became David is... full of holes:

Attanasio analysed three tiny samples from the second toe of David's left foot.
The fragments were retrieved in 1991, when the statue was damaged in an act of vandalism.
It emerged that fine grain size is the most distinct property of David's marble, Attanasio and colleagues report in the September issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science.

On the Shabbat of Return, a vandal smashed the second toe of David's left foot, providing the opportunity for the analysis.

Matthew 13

33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

Early in the morning on September 13, 1501, the young artist got to work on the slab, extracting the figure of David in a miraculous process that the artist and writer Giorgio Vasari would later describe as "the bringing back to life of one who was dead."
How a Rejected Block of Marble Became the World's Most Famous Statue