The King of Stories -- First Adversaries
Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.) First Adversaries Now Jesus, filled and led by the Holy Spirit, returns from the Jordan (River district, evidently back toward Nazareth, west-southwest of the inland sea of Galilee). But (instead of going straight back to Nazareth), the Spirit ejects Jesus into the wastes (of Samaria and the Galilee district, west of the lake and the Jordan River), a deserted place where wild beasts roam; and there He is led by the Spirit in a time of fasting--and trial. For forty days and nights He did not eat. After this is completed... Jesus hungers. Now the Adversary, who has been testing Him during this time, approaches Him (directly). And the tempter said: "If you are a son of God, then tell these stones to be cakes of bread!" But Jesus answered him, saying: "It is written (in the fifth...