These temptations are eerily similar to the temptations the devil offered Jesus in the desert, before Jesus began his ...

Do you notice anything different—indeed quite distinctive—in St. Luke’s account of Christ’s temptation? Following his baptism, our Lord has been led into the desert by the Holy Spirit.

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 ...