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 ...

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 ...

A man portrays the journey of returning to Jesus through reading the Bible, prayer, and overcoming temptations with faith.

In both Luke’s and Matthew’s Gospels, Jesus begins his public life with a retreat into the desert. In the Judaic tradition, the desert is the place where one encounters God. Jesus goes into the desert ...

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 ...

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).

Vatican City, Mar 9, 2025 / 10:30 am. Pope Francis on Sunday said defeats are not definitive for those who believe in Jesus Christ and trust in God’s love and forgiveness.