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Told more than once

The temptation in the wilderness

Matthew, Mark and Luke each tell it. Mark gives two verses and no dialogue; Matthew and Luke give the three temptations, in a different order from one another.

The accounts

Luke 4:1-13Mark 1:12-13Matthew 4:1-11

What the accounts share

  1. Matthew 4:1-11 and Mark 1:12-13

    Matthew and Mark narrate the Spirit driving or leading Jesus into the wilderness to be tested by Satan.

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  2. Matthew 4:1-11 and Luke 4:1-13

    Matthew and Luke preserve the same three wilderness temptations, though they order the final two differently.

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  3. Mark 1:12-13 and Luke 4:1-13

    Both place the temptation immediately after the baptism, and both have the Spirit drive Jesus into the desert for forty days. Mark gives no dialogue at all; Luke gives the three exchanges.

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