Scripture As Weapon
Definition
The devil’s threefold assault on the hungry Christ, aimed at making Him use divine power for Himself, at spectacular self-display, and at receiving outward dominion — all directed at preventing the saving Passion.
Episodes
Related Concepts
- Temptation Of Christ
Biblical References
- Matthew 3:1-12 — In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness of Judea proclaiming, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” For he is the one about whom the prophet Isaiah had spoken: “The voice of one shouting in the w
- Mark 1:1-8 — The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,who will prepare your way, the voice of one shouting in the wilderness,‘
- Mark 1:2 — *As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,who will prepare your way, *
- Mark 1:3 — *the voice of one shouting in the wilderness,‘Prepare the way for the Lord,make his paths straight.’” *
- Luke 3:1-18 — In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysani
- Luke 3:3 — *He went into all the region around the Jordan River, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. *