Jesus in the "Wildnerness"

The ‘Temptation’ of Jesus is commonly considered to refer to Jesus’ wilderness encounter with Satan and his struggle to resist the latter’s enticements to sin. This is misleading, argues Jeffrey B. Gibson, respected scholar of the New Testament and Early Christianity. The Evangelists record several other instances of Jesus facing temptation during his ministry; to designate the Devil’s petitions as ‘temptations’ ascribe an inaccurate function to the wilderness event. Gibson explains with theological and historical rigour this alternative view and why it is significant to us today.