Jesus was part of the crowd around John and was baptized by John. In Luke’s account, in prayer and subsequent to his baptism, Jesus “sensed” a calling or anointing of some kind. Then he went into the ...

We can not blame God for our sins. Jesus Himself was sent out into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. We all face temptations; some are small, and ...

Save yourself and us!" Now we read how Jesus aced the devil’s test: "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights ...

The fact that Jesus’ temptation took place in the wilderness would have evoked powerful if complex associations for any 1st century Palestinian Jew. Much of Palestine was (and still is ...

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and ...

The video begins by explaining that the forty days of Lent mirror the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness, where he overcame temptation from the devil. The video then moves on to some of the ...