Jesus empathizes with our temptations because he himself was. tempted. The book of Matthew depicts our Lord’s temptation in three. areas: an appeal to his flesh (hunger), an appeal to presumption (a ...

The account of Jesus’ temptation appears with slight variations in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. These accounts expand upon Mk 1:12-13, which mentions briefly that Jesus “remained in the ...

For Jesus to throw himself down from the Pinnacle of the Temple knowing full well that God would send angels to rescue him, the temptation was for the lure of the spectacle—literally a ...

Pope Francis on Sunday said defeats are not definitive for those who believe in Jesus Christ and trust in God’s love and forgiveness. In his prepared March 9 homily for the First Sunday of Lent ...

Jesus was really tempted? If you think it's a widely accepted idea, Google reactions to The Last Temptation of Christ.When Nikos Kazantzakis' book came out in 1955, the Catholic Church added it to ...

His second temptation is to take Jesus to the top of the Temple and suggest he jump off. Normal people would, of course, recognize such behavior as reckless, injurious, even suicidal.

Luke 4:1-13 gives some hints into how Jesus was able to resist three epic temptations that had been customized by the devil specifically for him.

The Gospels tell us that right after Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan, the Spirit directed him into the wilderness where the Devil set before him three temptations (Matt. 4:1–11; Luke 4:1–13).

The film is only Christian insofar as it features Jesus Christ, as most of its runtime is hyper-realistic in approach. While “Last Temptation” is not a cushy and sentimental viewing, the film is ...

If the Tempter could not derail or even distract Jesus, then we accept the notion that Jesus could have been lured off his mission; he could have chosen otherwise. If not, there is no temptation ...