The setting is Jesus in the wilderness, being tempted by the devil (vs. 1) and the second temptation is for Jesus to hurl himself down from a pinnacle in the temple “in the holy city” (vss. 5 & 6).
The devil is, again, trying to get Jesus disbelieving the very words of God in heaven to him at his baptism 40 days earlier: ‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’ (Mat. 3:17)
Satan casts doubt on this by saying to Jesus, ‘If thou be the Son of God…’
The question asked here arises because Jesus resists that temptation by answering,
“It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God” (vs. 7,
KJV)
So, just who exactly was Satan tempting?
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