Mark 1:13

Translations

Modern

…and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.

Traditional

And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

Literal

And He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan, and He was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to Him.

Latin

Et erat in deserto quadraginta diebus, et quadraginta noctibus: et tentabatur a Satana: eratque cum bestiis, et angeli ministrabant illi.

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Greek

English

…and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.

Notes

Mark 1:12–13

the Spirit drove Jesus (compare Matthew 4:1; Luke 4:1): he Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness. From the beginning of his ministry, Jesus defeated Satan and resisted temptation. His later acts of casting out demons (Mark 1:21–34; 3:11–12; 5:1–20; 9:14–27) show the results of that victory (see 3:27).
Jesus was tempted in the wilderness of Judea. In Scripture, the wilderness often has a sense of danger and evil because of Satan and wild animals (Isaiah 13:19–22; Ezekiel 34:25). These animals included dogs, wolves, leopards, jackals, and bears.
The forty days remind us of Israel's forty years of testing in the wilderness. Israel failed, but Jesus succeeded. He resisted temptation without sinning (Hebrews 2:18; 4:15; see also James 1:3, 12; 1 Peter 1:7; Revelation 2:10).

Theme notes and profiles

Satan

Events

Temptations of Jesusc. AD 26

Related verses

Hebrews 2:17–18
For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
Exodus 34:28
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
Matthew 26:53
Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
Matthew 4:10–11
“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus told him. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
Deuteronomy 9:11
And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
1 Kings 19:5–8
Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
Deuteronomy 9:25
So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
1 Timothy 3:16
By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.
Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Parallels

Matthew 4:1–17 Luke 4:1–15

People

Satan: The adversary, the devil, the tempter of humanity

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Desert Mark, Gospel of Wilderness

Topics

Angel (A Spirit): Functions of Ministers to Jesus After the Temptation Angel (A Spirit): Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Animals: Homes of Beasts by Nature Wild Deserts: Infested with Wild Beasts Fasting: During Forty Days: Jesus Jesus, the Christ: Temptation of Jesus, the Christ: Temptation of (In the Desert of Judaea) Satan: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Temptation: Christ: Endured, from the Devil Wilderness: Jesus' Temptation In

Mark 1:13

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