In Luke 4, Jesus is led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness where He fasts for forty days and faces three temptations from the devil. These temptations challenge Him to prioritize self-reliance over trust in God, to seek worldly power rather than humble obedience, and to demand miraculous proof of God’s care. Each time, Jesus quotes from Deuteronomy, illustrating His complete reliance on Scripture and the Holy Spirit. In doing so, He fulfills what Israel was meant to accomplish in its own wilderness experience. The passage shows that Jesus, fully divine yet fully human, resists temptation not through automatic immunity but through faithful dependence on God—an example for believers to trust the Spirit’s power in their own trials.
