5. Then the devil took him up.] 2. Second temptation. a. Order of events. St. Luke [4:5 ff.] inverts the order of the second and third temptation found in the first gospel. Hence a number of authorities believe that the third gospel gives the true chronological order of temptations. Reasons: The external evidence is represented by the names of gloss. ord. Pasch. Alb. Reischl, Coleridge, Grimm, Knab. etc.; the internal grounds are the fact that St. Luke promises to write “in order” [1:3], and the
Matthew 4:5