The Temptation of Jesus

This passage of the temptation of Jesus is by far one of the most sacred of stories told in the gospels. The reason being, is because the story could not have come from anyone else, but Jesus. Jesus was the only present at this moment of temptation, so it must have at some time been passed down to his disciples (Barclay). In this particular telling of the story, it is written by Luke. Luke was a Gentile, which is significant because all of the other New Testament writers were Jews. According to Colossians 4:14, Luke was a doctor. Colossians teaches us that Luke was a "beloved physician." This explains why Luke saw people as who they are, and the love he had for all of them (Welch).

The audience the book was originally intended for were Gentiles or early Christians. In the first 3 verses of the book of Luke, it explains how Luke is writing to Theophilus to read. It is important to know Theophilus was highly ranked in the Roman Empire, and was not a Jew, but a Gentile. Scholars also believe it is written for Gentiles, because everything written in the book is written so that Gentiles can understand. Evidence of this is how he calls Jesus master. Master is a Greek term, while the Jewish word would have been Rabbi for Jesus. Also, when Luke is looking back on the descendants of Jesus in Luke 3:38, he doesn't go back to the founder of the Jewish ethnic group, like in the book of Matthew 1:2. Instead, in Luke 3:38 he traces back to Adam being the founder of all of humanity (Barclay).

The book of Luke was written around the year 70-100 A.D. The major theme or emphases of the book in which the passage is found, is the topic of the Holy Spirit (Barclay). Right from the very start of the passage it references the Holy Spirit. It is signif...

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...tes and humbled Himself in order to grow as we grow, and all the spiritual temptations that comes along with it. Our God is a God who humbled ourselves to our shoes in order to have that significant relationship with us.

God has and always will have the ability to send us into awe with his divine power with how he does and does not use it. He had the ability to wipe the Earth clean, like he did with Noah and the flood, but instead gave humanity an opportunity to redeem itself. He gave his only begotten son to us so that we may life without sin and hopefully be with him in paradise when we die. The idea that something so much bigger than us is able to think about us on an individual level is mind shattering. Giving us the chance to give our lives to him is truly a blessing. Giving our lives to Him is just a small way of thanking Him for His compassion towards us.