jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted

Each one attempts to lure Christ into abusing His power to take immediately what God the Father has promised to provide later. After 40 days and nights of fasting, Jesus faces three temptations from Satan. 2 And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became. Matthew 4:111 describes Jesus' temptation in the wilderness. 25Great multitudes followed Him-from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan. 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 24Then His fame went throughout all Syria and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics and He healed them. If it is then asked why the Holy Spirit would play a role in causing Jesus to be tempted, I believe that it is more accurate to speak of Jesus being tested, which God. He called them, 22and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.Ģ3And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Jesus was led into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit (the same Holy Spirit that had just appeared in visible form at Jesus baptism in the previous chapter of Matthews gospel). Both the Spirit of God and the devil were. 19Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20They immediately left their nets and followed Him.Ģ1Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. Matthew 4:1 says, Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted (peirazo) by the devil. 15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,īy the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,ġ6 The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light,Īnd upon those who sat in the region and shadow of deathġ7From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”ġ8And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen.

Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted