The temptation of Christ in Christianity, refers to the temptation of Jesus by the devil as detailed in each of the Synoptic Gospels, at Matthew 4:1-11, Mark 1:12-13, and Luke 4:1-13. Christian translations often use the term Satan to describe Jesus' adversary in this narrative. The bible actually says diabolos (Greek for slanderer) in the Gospels of Matthew and of Luke, though it does say Satan in the Gospel of Mark. The chronology of Jesus depicts the traditional chronology established for the events of the life of Jesus by the four canonical gospels (which allude to various dates for several events). ... Jesus (8–2 BC/BCE to 29–36 AD/CE),[1] also known as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity. ... This article presents a description of Jesus life, as based on the four gospels. ... For other uses, see Gospel (disambiguation). ... 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According to these texts, after being baptised, Jesus fasted for forty days and nights in the desert. During this time, the devil appeared to Jesus and tempted him to demonstrate his supernatural powers as proof of his divinity, each temptation being refused by Jesus with a quote of scripture from the Book of Deuteronomy. The Gospels state that having failed, the devil departed and angels came and brought nourishment to Jesus. Baptism is a water purification ritual practiced in certain religions such as Christianity, Mandaeanism, Sikhism, and some historic sects of Judaism. ... Fasting is the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food and in some cases drink, for a period of time. ... Image:Morocco Africa, which is where bottoms come from, Flickr Rosino December 2005 84514010 edited by Buchling. ... Look up Supernatural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Divinity has a number of related uses in the field of religious belief and study. ... Many religions and spiritual movements hold certain written texts (or series of spoken legends not traditionally written down) to be sacred. ... Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. ... The Annunciation - the Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear Jesus (El Greco, 1575) An angel is a supernatural being found in many religions. ...

Mark's account is very brief, merely noting the aforementioned events, but giving no details about them, not even how many there were. Matthew and Luke on the other hand, describe the temptations by recounting the details of the conversations between Jesus and the devil. Since the elements of the narrative that are in Matthew and Luke but not Mark are mostly pairs of quotations, rather than detailed narrative, many scholars believe that these extra details originate in the Q Document. The Gospel of Mark is traditionally the second New Testament Gospel, ascribed to Mark the Evangelist. ... The Q document or Q (Q for German Quelle, source) is a postulated lost textual source for the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke. ...

Accounts

Ary Scheffer's The Temptation of Christ

In Luke and Matthew's accounts, the devil tempts Jesus to: Image File history File links Ary_Scheffer_-_The_Temptation_of_Christ_(1854). ... Ary Scheffer (February 10, 1795 _ June 15, 1858), French painter of Dutch extraction, was born at Dordrecht. ...

• Worship the devil in return for all the kingdoms of the world. Luke has the devil explicitly claim this authority had previously been handed to himself, the devil.
• Make bread out of stone(s) to relieve his own hunger (Matthew has stones while Luke has this stone)
• Free himself from a pinnacle by jumping and relying on angels to break his fall. The narrative of both Luke and Matthew has the devil quote Psalm 91:11-12 to show that God had promised this assistance, although the devil omits the part of that passage which makes clear that it is only accidents that are being referred to, not deliberate jumps.

The order is inconsistent between Luke and Matthew. In Matthew, the middle temptation is the one to jump from a pinnacle, and the power over the kingdoms of the world is the final one, but in Luke it is the other way around. Regardless of which ordering was followed, tradition arose that once Jesus rejected the final temptation, the devil plummeted from the top of whichever of the two high places he was at, something frequently depicted in art and recounted in some detail in Paradise Regained. Paradise Regaind is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. ...

Matthew makes clear that the Spirit (presumably the Holy Ghost prominently mentioned only two verses before) has led Jesus into the desert. Many scholars see Matthew as presenting Jesus being tested under the orders of God, rather than the devil being opportunist. The Catholic and Orthodox teaching is that the Devil and the other demons are spiritual or angelic creatures created by God in a state of innocence, and that they became evil by their own act. Other Non-Christian teachings,see the devil's role here as echoing Satan's role in some parts of the Old Testament, or as taught in Modern Day Rabbinic Judaism where he is portrayed as an angel acting under God's orders as an official "opposing council" to test humans on behalf of God. Thus there are two understandings of Satan, the Christian one of a Satan who is a fallen angel in rebellion to God who became evil, and the Judeo one of a Satan who is not an evil fallen angel, but a servant of God carrying out God's will. The Holy Spirit, from the Christian viewpoint, while related to Gods will, is not Gods will personified. ... Separate articles treat Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Orthodox Judaism. ... Gustave Dorés depiction of Satan from John Miltons Paradise Lost Satan, from the Hebrew word for accuser (Standard Hebrew: , Satan Tiberian Hebrew ; Koine Greek: , Satanás; Aramaic: , ; Arabic: , , Geez: Sāyṭān, Slavic Сатана), is a term with its origins in the Abrahamic faiths which is traditionally applied... Note: Judaism commonly uses the term Tanakh. ... Rabbinic Judaism (or in Hebrew Yahadut Rabanit - יהדות רבנית) is a Jewish denomination characterized by reliance on the written Torah as well as the Oral Law (the Mishnah, Talmuds and subsequent rabbinic decisions) as halakha (Legally Binding, i. ...

Fasting

Ivan Kramskoy's 1872 Christ in the Wilderness

Fasting traditionally presaged a great spiritual struggle.^[1] The Israelites, as well as Elijah and Moses individually, are described in the Old Testament as fasting for 40 days and nights, and so Jesus doing the same appears to be a deliberate comparison to these events. At the time, forty was less a specific number and more a general expression for any large figure.^[2] Fasting does not necessarily mean a complete abstinence from food and consequently that Jesus may have been surviving on the sparse food that could be obtained in the desert.^[3] Mark does not mention any fasting and, although Luke implies it, does not use the word. Matthew is far more interested in presenting Jesus as having fasted prior to the events than the other gospels are.^[4] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (676x800, 102 KB) The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (676x800, 102 KB) The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Portrait of painter Ivan Shishkin. ... Moses strikes water from the stone, by Bacchiacca Moses (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה, Standard Tiberian ; Arabic: موسى, ; Geez: ሙሴ Musse) was an early Biblical Hebrew religious leader, lawgiver, prophet, and historian. ... 40 is the natural number following 39 and preceding 41. ...

Jesus' fasting became the model for the practice of Lent in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Protestants (in general) do not see this passage as a justification for Lent, and while Martin Luther felt that the Lent ritual was useful in focusing the minds of the faithful, he still considered it artificial. John Calvin felt the entire notion was silly and that if imitation was truly the path to salvation then believers ought to strive to walk on water or to turn water to wine. In Western Christianity, Lent is the period (or season) from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday(40 days). ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Eastern Orthodoxy (also called Greek Orthodoxy and Russian Orthodoxy) is a Christian tradition which represents the majority of Eastern Christianity. ... Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was a German monk,[1] priest, professor, theologian, and church reformer. ... John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism. ...

Locations

Duccio's The Temptation on the Mount

Each temptation takes place in a different setting. The temptation of making bread out of stones, occurs in the same desert setting where Jesus had been fasting. Jones reports that the wilderness mentioned here has since the fifth century been believed to be the rocky and uninhabited area between Jerusalem and Jericho, with a spot on Mount Quarantania traditionally being considered the exact location. The desert was seen as outside the bounds of society and as the home of demons such as Azazel. Some have read this reference to the wilderness as a comparison to Adam in the Garden of Eden, implying that Jesus will be a new Adam. However like most scholars Gundry rejects this idea, stating that nowhere does Matthew's text imply such a comparison, but rather the desert is more likely an allusion to the wilderness through which the Israelites wandered during the Exodus, and more specifically to Moses.^[5] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (789x750, 178 KB) This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (789x750, 178 KB) This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less. ... Maestà (Madonna with Angels and Saints) (1308-11) Tempera on wood, 214 x 412 cm Museo dellOpera del Duomo, Siena Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. ... (4th century - 5th century - 6th century - other centuries) Events Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ... Panoramic view from Mt. ... The Taking of Jericho, by Jean Fouquet Near central Jericho, November 1996 For other meanings of the word Jericho, see: Jericho (disambiguation) Jericho (Arabic ; ʼArīḥā; Hebrew ; Standard Hebrew Yəriḥo; Tiberian Hebrew Yərîḫô, Yərîḥô, Greek Ίεριχώ = Ίερή ηχώ, Hierē ēchō - Holy echo) is a town in the West Bank, near... Mount Quarantania is a mountain approximately 366 m (1 200 feet) high, located about 11 km (7 miles) north-west of the West Bank town of Jericho. ... A modern interpretation of Azazel, from Collin de Plancys Dictionnaire Infernal (Paris,1825) This article is about the Biblical and post-Biblical character Azazel. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Adam and Eve. ... The Fall of Man by Lucas Cranach, a 16th century German depiction of Eden The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Ēden, גַּן עֵדֶן) is described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man - Adam - and woman - Eve - lived after they were created by God. ... Allusion is a stylistic device in which one references an object or circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external context. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Exodus, more fully The Exodus of Israel out of Egypt, was the departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt under the leadership of Moses and Aaron as described in the biblical Book of Exodus. ...

After the first temptation is rejected, the devil takes Jesus to a high pinnacle in what Matthew terms the holy city. Most Christians consider that holy city refers unquestionably to Jerusalem and the temple to which the pinnacle belongs is thus identified as the Temple in Jerusalem, although the text is quite ambiguous in this matter since Matthew could easily name the location. Luke's version of the story clearly identifies the location as Jerusalem. What is meant by the word traditionally translated as pinnacle is not entirely clear since the Greek word is almost identical to the word that translates as little wings. Schweizer hence feels that little tower or parapet would be more accurate, and the New Jerusalem Bible does use the translation "parapet". Gundry lists three sites at the Jerusalem temple that would fit this description^[6]: Panoramic view from Mt. ... The Temple in Jerusalem or the Holy Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש, transliterated Bet HaMikdash) was built in ancient Jerusalem in the 10th century BCE and was subsequently rebuilt twice, after the Babylonian Captivity and during Herod the Greats renovation. ... The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) is a Catholic translation of the Bible published in 1985. ...

• On the top of the temple's main tower, above the sanctuary proper, some 180 feet above ground, the location that artists and others using the traditional translation generally set the story.
• Atop the lintel of the main gateway into the temple, the most prominent position where the pair could easily have been seen.
• A tower on the southeast corner of the outer wall that looks down into the Kidron Valley, which James the Just was said to have later been thrown from by way of execution.

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• John Calvin supported the view that the devil took Jesus to a vision of a high place where he could see the entire world, and the Geneva Bible translates the passage in this way
• kingdoms could be a reference to power rather than geography
• all...of the world could refer only to the "known world", a comparatively small region at the time of Matthew
• the devil took Jesus to a mountain top and from there flew him around the entire world
• the devil took Jesus to a mountain top but then simply pulled out a map of the earth.

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Purpose

16th century master illuminator Simon Bening's depiction of the devil approaching Jesus with a stone to be turned into bread

Exactly what the devil was trying to achieve by these temptations has been open to debate. The traditional view is that the devil on each occasion is trying to make Jesus commit a particular sin - avarice by offering power over the kingdoms of the world, gluttony by suggesting a way to relieve Jesus' hunger, and hubris by suggesting that Jesus jump and rely on angels to break his fall. Most modern scholars do not accept this view, Jones for example noting that calling someone who has fasted for forty days gluttonous simply because they now desire food is really not very fair.^[7] Image File history File links Simon_Bening_-_The_Temptation_of_Christ. ... Image File history File links Simon_Bening_-_The_Temptation_of_Christ. ... In the strictest definition of illuminated manuscript, only manuscripts decorated with gold or silver, like this miniature of Christ in Majesty from the Aberdeen Bestiary (folio 4v), would be considered illuminated. ... Simon Bening (1483 - 1561) was a 16th century miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school. ... Greed is often associated with death and disease. ... Gluttony can also refer to a character named Gluttony - a homonculus from the anime series Full Metal Alchemist Gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or intoxicants to the point of waste. ... Hubris or hybris (Greek ), according to its modern usage, is exaggerated self pride or self-confidence, often resulting in fatal retribution. ...

Another view popular for a time^{[citation needed]} was that the devil wasn't so much tempting Jesus as presenting him with the different options he could take to be a Messiah, and making him choose one. Evangelicals point to the word usually translated as tempt as being more accurately translated as test, i.e. that the devil was testing Jesus' understanding of his role rather than trying to lure him to sin.^[8] Rejected options under this interpretation are:

• someone who rescues the poor and needy from their hardships, as manifested by feeding the hungry
• a magician and miracle worker who wins converts by spectacular acts, as manifested by surviving a jump from a high pinnacle. That the devil places Jesus in a very public location, rather than the numerous high pinnacles in the desert, gives credence to this view.
• a political liberator from the oppression of the Romans, as manifested by having power over the kingdoms of the world

The majority viewpoint amongst scholars^{[citation needed]} is that Matthew is here presenting Jesus as a new Moses, since not only is the devil described as tempting Jesus in a manner similar to the Israelites tempting God, but Jesus is presented as responding with Moses' own words. It is worth noting that while the Israelites accepts each situation, Jesus refuses to be tempted:

• The offer of power over the kingdoms of the world mirrors Moses being sent to the top of Mount Nebo, where God shows him Jericho and Canaan, and then promises them to the Israelites if the Israelites worship God
• The feeding of the hungry parallels the period of the Exodus where the Israelites wander hungry in the desert, and harass God so much by their complaints that food is eventually provided for them, by supernatural means
• The jumping from a pinnacle presents something which would test God's abilities, paralleling the Israelites behaviour in the desert where they tested God

There remains the question of the validity of the temptations offered Jesus. As the Son of God, He would able to attain any of these desires (temporal power, magics, etc) without the aid of the Devil. He was, in essense, being tempted with offers that He already had in His hand. The Brazen Serpent sculpture Mount Nebo (Arabic: جبل نيبو; transliterated: Jabal Nebo) is an elevated ridge that is approximately 817 metres (2680 feet) above sea level, in what is now western Jordan. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Tetragrammaton. ... The Taking of Jericho, by Jean Fouquet Near central Jericho, November 1996 For other meanings of the word Jericho, see: Jericho (disambiguation) Jericho (Arabic ; ʼArīḥā; Hebrew ; Standard Hebrew Yəriḥo; Tiberian Hebrew Yərîḫô, Yərîḥô, Greek Ίεριχώ = Ίερή ηχώ, Hierē ēchō - Holy echo) is a town in the West Bank, near... For other uses, see Canaan (disambiguation). ... The Exodus, more fully The Exodus of Israel out of Egypt, was the departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt under the leadership of Moses and Aaron as described in the biblical Book of Exodus. ...

Rejections

Peter Paul Rubens' The Temptation of Christ shows Jesus rebuffing Satan's proffered stone

Jesus is written as rejecting each of the temptations by quoting from the Septuagint version of Deuteronomy. It is worth noting that the wording in the Masoretic text, which forms the basis of most Christian translations of the Old Testament, is not as good a match. The three quotations are: Image File history File links Rubens_-_The_Temptation_of_Christ. ... Image File history File links Rubens_-_The_Temptation_of_Christ. ... Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower Alte Pinakothek Pieter Pauwel (Peter Paul) Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was the most popular and prolific Flemish and European painter of the 17th century. ... The Septuagint: A page from Codex vaticanus, the basis of Sir Lancelot Brentons English translation. ... The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Tanakh approved for general use in Judaism. ...

• Deuteronomy 6:13, which refers to a rejection of idolatry, to reject power over all the kingdoms of the world. In Matthew, Jesus also says Get away from me, Satan, the only place in the whole story that the word Satan is used to refer to the devil.
• Deuteronomy 6:16, which admonishes the Israelites for testing God, to reject jumping and relying on divine rescue. Some Christians extrapolate from this a rejection of Antinomianism since it is a quote from Moses.
• Deuteronomy 8:3, which refers to a need to have spiritual as well as physical sustenance, to reject a solution to hunger. Unlike Matthew, Luke abbreviates the quote, neglecting to include the part that states that man should live by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of God. The part of this quote that is in both Luke and Matthew - man shall not live by bread alone- has today become a common expression, which some take to refer to a need for spirituality, but most use in the opposite sense, to justify material luxuries.

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Jesus' banquet

Thomas Cole's Angels Ministering to Christ in the Wilderness

Once the temptations are over, the narrative has the devil depart and Jesus being looked after by angels. In the original Greek of Matthew, "devil left him" was in the historic present tense, indicating a lack of permanence, i.e. that the devil would later return to further tempt Jesus (which Luke spells out explicitly). While both Mark and Matthew mention the angels, Luke does not, and Matthew seems once again here to be making parallels with Elijah^{[citation needed]}, who was fed by ravens. The word minister/served is often interpreted as the angels feeding Jesus, and traditionally artists have depicted the scene as Jesus being presented with a feast, a detailed description of it even appearing in Paradise Regained. This ending to the temptation narrative may be a common literary device of using a feast scene to emphasize a happy ending^[9], or it may be proof that Jesus never lost his faith in God during the temptations.^[10] In the War Scroll found at Qumran, angels are described as forming an army to battle evil, which is somewhat at odds with most interpretations of the portrayal of angels here, but it could indicate that the angels in the passage should instead be interpreted as ministering to Jesus by driving off the devil. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (840x1040, 156 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Thomas Cole Temptation of Christ Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (840x1040, 156 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Thomas Cole Temptation of Christ Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or... Thomas Cole, ca. ... Species See text. ... The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness is a manual for military organization and strategy that was discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. ... Qumran (Hebrew:חירבת קומראן Khirbet Qumran) is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in Israel. ...

Cultural Influences

The temptation of Christ has been a frequent subject in the art and literature of Christian cultures. In more recent times, to "turn stones into bread" has become a common phrase in American English.^{[citation needed]} Musical depictions of the temptations are curiously absent from the musical repertoire. Literally hundreds of musical dramas about the temptation of saints and martyrs have survived, but a combination of reverence, censorship and reactionary pressures have kept the early temptation of Christ almost invisible in music and the stage. Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar has brief references to Christ being tempted by mortal pleasures, but there are few surface treatments of this temptation and almost no detailed treatments, especially in high art music.^{[citation needed]} ART is a three-letter acronym that can mean: Adaptive resonance theory Arlington Transit, a bus service that serves Arlington County, Virginia Advanced Rapid Transit metro technology assisted reproductive technology Anaheim Resort Transit Watertown International Airport (IATA airport code: ART) ISO 639 alpha-3 code for otherwise unassigned artificial languages... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... English language spread in the United States. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber (publicity portrait). ... Eric Kunze as Jesus in the recent U.S. touring version of Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. ...

See also

• The Last Temptation of Christ
• New Testament view on Jesus' life

The Last Temptation of Christ, (in Greek O Teleutaios Peirasmos, Ο Τελευταίος Πειρασμός) also published as The Last Temptation, is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1951. ... This article presents a description of Jesus life, as based on the four gospels. ...

References

1. ^ Hill, David. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981
2. ^ Clarke, Howard W. The Gospel of Matthew and its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
3. ^ France, R.T. The Gospel According to Matthew: an Introduction and Commentary. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1985.
4. ^ Gundry, Robert H. Matthew a Commentary on his Literary and Theological Art. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982.
5. ^ Gundry, Robert H. Matthew a Commentary on his Literary and Theological Art. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982.
6. ^ Gundry, Robert H. Matthew a Commentary on his Literary and Theological Art. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982.
7. ^ Jones, Alexander. The Gospel According to St. Matthew. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1965.
8. ^ France, R.T. The Gospel According to Matthew: an Introduction and Commentary. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1985.
9. ^ Clarke, Howard W. The Gospel of Matthew and its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
10. ^ Jones, Alexander. The Gospel According to St. Matthew. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1965.

• Albright, W.F. and C.S. Mann. "Matthew." The Anchor Bible Series. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1971.
• Schweizer, Eduard. The Good News According to Matthew. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1975

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External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Temptation of Christ
• Temptation of Christ (a Muslim interpretation)
• (Recording) 'The Pilgrim and the Liar', A Narrative Song by Edward Waters from Luke 4.1-13 and Matthew 4.1-11
• (Lyrics) 'The Pilgrim and the Liar', A Narrative Song by Edward Waters from Luke 4.1-13 and Matthew 4.1-11