"And Jesus

being full

of the Holy

Spirit

returned

from Jordan,

and was led

by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Being forty days tempted of the devil.

And in those days he did eat nothing:

and when they were ended, he after

ward hungered. And the devil said unto

him,....." Luke 4:1-2

Satan's appearance took place when

Jesus was at His weakest, after a long

fast for several days. That is usually

when Satan picks to attack, in times of

exhaustion and depression.

His first words were to put doubt in

Jesus' mind of his divinity. "If thou be

the Son of God", he wanted to reason

with Jesus' human side and confuse him.