TODAY'S BIBLE TWEET

BIBLE TEXT: “And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan…” (Mark 1:12-13a KJV)

BIBLE TWEET: Mark, unlike Matthew and Luke, says Jesus was driven rather than led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil for forty days.

BIBLE TAKEAWAY: Christ was driven, not just led by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil for forty days, because Christ had to be tempted by the devil in every way that we are, without falling to temptation and sinning, in order to save us from our sins, to intercede for us when we sin, and to be our High Priest, who sympathizes with us in all of our temptations. (Hebrews 4:15; 7:24-25)