After his baptism, Jesus — "full of the Holy Ghost" — was led by the Spirit into the wilderness and tempted by the devil for forty days. Against three...
Luke's Beatitudes (Luke 6:20–26) are more direct than Matthew's — and more jarring. Jesus speaks not of the "poor in spirit" but simply of the poor. Not...
In Mark 12:13–33, Jesus is tested three times by opponents trying to trap him publicly. He silences the Pharisees and Herodians with "Render to Caesar the...
"The acceptable year of the Lord" (Luke 4:19) is Jesus's declaration that Isaiah 61 is now fulfilled in Him. It is a proclamation of liberation — the blind...