jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted

Jesus answered this second temptation of the devil, this time quoting Deuteronomy 6:16: “On the other hand, it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” (Matthew 4:7).įinally, in his third temptation, the devil used a false promise, an outright lie, to tempt Jesus when he promised to give Him all of the kingdoms of the world if He would bow down to worship him. He taunted Jesus by saying that if He really is the Son of God, then He should throw Himself down off of the high place where they were, because the Scripture says: “He will command his angels concerning You, and On their hands they will bear You up, So that you will not strike Your foot against a stone.” (Psalm 91:11- 12). In his second temptation, the devil cleverly tried to use Scripture himself in an attempt to justify his challenge to Jesus. Jesus responded to this first temptation with a Scripture from Deuteronomy 8:3, when He said: “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’” (Matthew 4:4). First, he said to Jesus that if He really is the Son of God, then He should command the stones before Him to become bread. The devil’s first two temptations are a type of brazen and arrogant challenge in which he is essentially saying to Jesus that if He really is the Son of God, then He should prove it. After He had fasted forty days and nights, He was hungry, and this is when the tempter came to Him with his deceptions, which included twisting the meaning of Scriptures in an attempt to coerce Him into transgressing the word of God.

The Scripture tells us that Jesus was led by the Spirit of God into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. In Matthew 4:1-11 we find the account of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness.

Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted