are about obedience, and both share the elements of hunger, bread, the number “forty,” and water (Red Sea/Israelites; Jordan River/Jesus) in common.87 Nor is the devil the protagonist of the story; indeed, the devil’s name is omitted in vv. 5 and 9, where we should expect it. The temptation narrative, rather, resumes the two foci of the baptism: the direction of the Holy Spirit, and Jesus’ identity as Son of God. The Spirit is twice mentioned in the first verse as the one who fills Jesus and leads
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