#Who led jesus into the wilderness full#

Deut 6:16)ĥ Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.6 And the devil said to him, “To you I will give their glory and all this authority for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. Ps 91:11-12) 7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘ Do not put the Lord your God to the test.‘ ” (cf. Deut 8:3c)ĥ Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 saying 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, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.’ ” (cf. Deut 8:3cd)ģ The devil said to him, “ If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread.” 4 Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘ One does not live by bread alone.‘ “(cf. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished.ģ The tempter came and said to him, “ If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written, ‘ One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.‘ ” (cf.

#Who led jesus into the wilderness full#

2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.ġ Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. 13 He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan and he was with the wild beasts…ġ Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. ġ2 And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. This might be an argument for reshaping the calendar, but I am not sure that is going to happen any time soon!)įelix Just, on his Catholic Resources page, includes a helpful table of comparison of the three Synoptic accounts of the temptations. (It is also worth noting the slightly odd way that the calendar use of Lent leading into Easter pushes the biblical narrative out of shape, since for Jesus the 40 days was a preparation for his ministry, with the events of Easter some way off, whereas for us the 40 days leads straight into the events of Holy Week and Easter itself. So don’t forget where you stashed all that chocolate…! The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Lent 1 in Year C is Luke 4.1–13, Luke’s account of the temptation of Jesus in the desert. The 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness being tested by Satan offers us the pattern for the Lenten period-though it is worth noting at the outset both that the figure 40 in Scripture is often taken as an approximate or symbolic number meaning ‘a significant period’ (the Exodus wanderings actually lasted 42 years) and that the 40 days of Lent don’t include the Sundays, which remain as feast days on which we are exempt from Lenten disciplines.