Exegesis Luke 4:1-13

In order to really get a grasp at what the book of Luke is trying to get across, we will go into the history of the book. Written some time around 85-90 CE, it is believed that a man named Luke was not only the author of the book of Luke, but the book of Acts as well. Luke is believed to have been a physician, which would imply that he was very educated. We can clearly see evidence of this fact in reading both Luke and Acts. The large vocabulary and stylistic writings in these books would suggest that

So now that we understand possibly why the text was written the way it was, we now proceed to where the selected text took place. In the first verse, it says that Jesus left Jordan and went into the “wilderness.” One might ask where is this “wilderness?” Is it in another part of the country? According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, the wilderness was actually in lower Jordan in the highlands of Judea and west of the Dead Sea (1005). The fact that Luke says that Jesus left Jordan and went into this desert might suggest that Luke was less accustomed with the area than that of Mark and Matthew (Harvy, 235).

First two times thwarted, Satan tries a third time to tempt Christ Jesus. He takes him to the pinnacle of the Tower and says that if he is the son of GOD, he could jump and live. This time, however, the Devil uses a different tactic. Since Jesus has been combating Satan’s temptations with scripture, the Devil himself quotes 91 Psalms 11-12, in order to get him to jump. Jesus sees right through it and comes back with another quote from Deuteronomy 6:16, “Do not put the Lord your GOD to the test…” You can see how Satan tried to turn the tables on Jesus by using scripture. Many times in the modern day world, people use this “fight fire with fire” approach to getting people to submit with their demands (New Interpreter’s Bible, 98-99).

Being one of the “synoptic” gospels, the story of Jesus’ temptation is in the text of both the book of Matthew as well as the book of Mark. There are some discrepancies in the three gospel’s chosen way of relaying the story. In Matthew, the first temptation is the bread, then the jumping from the temple, then the showing of the kingdoms. Mark’s narrative doesn’t go into the full details of temptations. In fact, Mark 1:12-13, simply states: “12And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. 13He was in the wil

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