The Tension to Turn Stone Into Bread and to Leap Down From the Temple

This week's series of reflections on the wilderness temptations of our Lord Jesus. We've noticed that they are arranged in a different order in Luke's Gospel from the order in Matthew's Gospel. The middle one, Satan's bargain, it's the climactic one inMatthew's Gospel. If Jesus would just bow down and worship Satan just once, then he can have all the kingdoms of this world.