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This line is a direct reference to Matthew 3:17 and it is clear that Matthew is implying that Satan heard the announcement made after Jesus' baptism. [2] The wording is unclear on whether Satan is asking Jesus to miraculously transform the stones himself, or if he is asking Jesus to command God to do so. [3]
As hinted in the previous verse and confirmed at Luke 4:6 and John 12:31, this verse seems to show that the devil controlled the world before the coming of Jesus.It also is said to show how unimportant the physical world is; Satan is willing to abandon it to Jesus in exchange for Jesus not threatening him in the spiritual world.
Satan says, "All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me." Jesus replies "Get away, Satan! It is written: 'You shall worship the Lord your God and only Him shall you serve.'" [49] (referencing Deuteronomy 6:13 and 10:20). Readers would likely recognize this as reminiscent of the temptation to false worship ...
The temptations that Jesus faced echoes the very temptations, even in the same order, that the Israelites experienced after the exodus from slavery in Egypt (Exodus 16, 17 and 19–32). [ 3 ] In the Gospel of Luke this temptation is the final one, and that is the ordering most commonly used by Christians.
They are reflected in the Temptation of Christ in the desert: the world: to tempt God by casting himself off the pinnacle; the flesh: to turn stones into bread; and; the devil: to worship Satan. [3] [4] Ephesians 2:2–3a.
The Devil depicted in The Temptation of Christ, by Ary Scheffer, 1854. The three Synoptic Gospels all describe the temptation of Christ by Satan in the desert (Matthew 4:1–11, Mark 1:12–13, and Luke 4:1–13). [77] Satan first shows Jesus a stone and tells him to turn it into bread. [77]
The Messianic Temptation. Jonah Goldberg. April 10, 2024 at 4:17 PM. ... He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair. And Eve Konstantine, ...
Matthew 4:10 is the tenth verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Jesus has rebuffed two earlier temptations by Satan.The devil has thus transported Jesus to the top of a great mountain and offered him control of the world to Jesus if he agrees to worship him.