Synergy of Matthew 4:1-11/Mark 1:12,13/Luke 4:1-13
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan,
and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan;
and was with the wild beasts;
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
And when the tempter came to him,
he said,
If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
And Jesus answered him, saying,
It is written,
Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
And he brought him to Jerusalem,
and set him on a pinnacle of the temple,
and said unto him,
If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down:
for it is written,
He shall give his angels charge concerning thee:
and in their hands they shall bear thee up,
lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Jesus said unto him,
It is written again,
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
And the devil,
taking him up into an high mountain,
shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
And saith unto him,
All these things will I give thee,
for that is delivered unto me;
and to whomsoever I will I give it.
If thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Then saith Jesus unto him,
Get thee hence, Satan:
for it is written,
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Then the devil leaveth him,
and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
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Paul Adds - There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common
to man:
but God is
faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that ye are able;
but will with
the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear
it.
1 Corinthians
10:13
"Forty days and nights Jesus was subjected to the temptations of the enemy--the one who was once
an angel next to Christ in majesty and glory in the heavenly courts. Now Satan meets Him under different circumstances, as the glory that was round about Him is no longer visible. He has humbled Himself, taken upon Himself our nature. Our Lord's trial and test and proving shows that He could yield to these temptations, else the battle was all a farce. But He did not yield to the solicitude of the enemy, thus evidencing that the human nature of man, united with the divine nature by faith, may be strong and withstand Satan's temptations. But the facts of this history are not fable, but a living, acting, experience. [To deny this] would rob Jesus of His greatest glory--allegiance to God--which enshrouded Him as a garment in this world on the field of battle with the relentless foe, and He is not reckoned with the transgressor."
Manuscript Releases vol.16, p.180-183 E.G.W.