Continued From Part II Conclusion: When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.  What does this mean? An exegesis of the scripture is readily done, now that the wiles of Satan have been somewhat quantified.  For we know that he is quite crafty and personifies trickery and deception. In these verses Jesus had just been baptized by John the Baptist at the end of the previous chapter and then he was (seemingly) immediately led out into the wilderness for the express purpose of being tempted......

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