News

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 ...
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 ...
Jesus rebuffs this temptation, quoting Deuteronomy, “You shall worship the Lord, your God and him alone shall you serve” (Lk. 4:8, Dt. 6:13).
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 ...
As Jesus resisted those temptations of the devil and chose to follow the will of God alone, we must try to go with him, listen to what he says, follow how he acts, imitate him in every way we can.
In Kazantzakis` novel and Scorsese`s movie, Jesus succumbs to the temptation to be good. Only after he is finally out of harm`s way does he unrein his fantasy and permit it to run free.
SCRIPTURES & ART: Jesus faced three temptations — turning stones into bread, leaping off the Temple roof and gaining worldly dominion through worshipping the Evil One.
Today’s Sunday gospel is about the Temptation of our Lord Jesus Christ, a story that every Christian knows by heart… after all we’re mere mortals and very susceptible to commit sin, while ...