Jesus Defeats Satan's Temptations

The nature of Mark's Gospel is that it is hard-hitting, quickly covering essential incidents in Christ's ministry - so we see the same in the account of Satan's temptation assaults. The Spirit deemed it was necessary that the Son of God go to the wilderness and endure the allurements of the father of lies and embodiment of all wickedness. He endured and overcame each of Satan's attempts to destroy his Messianic ministry and as the Second Adam he triumphed where the first Adam had succumbed to Satan's urgings. Thus Christ can strengthen us and carry us faithful through times of temptation as we look to him.