Tested in the Wilderness: Matthew 4:1-11

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

The same Spirit that had descended like a dove now drove Jesus into the desert. The Father had just declared his pleasure; now the Son would face the adversary. This was not accident but appointment—the Spirit led him there.

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

Forty days. The number of testing: Israel wandered forty years, Moses fasted forty days on Sinai. Jesus entered the wilderness as Israel once had—but where Israel failed, he would stand.