For our gospel reading today, we go back in the chronology of Luke’s story. Our reading is after the baptism of Jesus, when he goes into the wilderness for forty days. This story is in all three synoptic gospels, and each year this reading, from one of the gospels, is read on the first Sunday in Lent. It is almost impossible to miss the connection between the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness, and the forty days of Lent.

This morning, we hear Luke’s story of the temptation, or testing of Jesus in the wilderness. Listen to Luke, chapter 4, verses 1 through 13.