whom I well pleased.” He who had been baptized as identifying Himself with confessed sinners was thus declared to be Himself the sinless One. We have no details here of the temptation, or testing, of Jehovah’s Servant. We are told only that immediately (note the word, for as mentioned in the Introduction it will be found often in this Gospel) the Spirit driveth Him into the wilderness for forty days, where He was tempted of the devil, and was with the wild beasts. When Satan left Him angels came
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