The Bible In Paintings: SATAN REALLY REALLY REALLY TEMPTS JESUS

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings
~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~

SATAN REALLY
REALLY REALLY
TEMPTS JESUS

֎ Featuring 38 Paintings and 1 Mosaic ֎

MATTHEW 4 and LUKE 4*

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

1
GEORG CORNICELIUS
"Christ Tempted by Satan"

2
WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
"Forty Days in the Wilderness"

3
HAROLD COPPING
"The Temptation of Christ"

4
IVAN KRAMSKOY
"Christ in the Wilderness"

5
BRITON RIVIERE
"Christ in the Wilderness"

6
PAUL BRILL
"Christ Tempted in the Wilderness"

7
JOHN ST. JOHN LONG
"The Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness"

8
JOOS DE MOMPER the Younger
"The Temptation of Christ"

9
JAN BRUEGHEL
"Temptation of Christ"

10
PHILIPS AUGUSTIJN IMMENRAET
"Temptation of Christ"

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

11
TITIAN
"The Temptation of Christ"

12
GANESH KELAGINA BEEDU SHENOY
"Devil Tempting Jesus"

13
JAMES TISSOT
"Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness"

14
JUAN DE FLANDES
"Temptation of Christ"

15
SIMON BENING
"The Temptation of Christ"

16
PETER PAUL RUBENS
"Temptation of Christ"

17
BOTTICELLI
"Temptation of Christ"

18
SALVATOR ROSA
"The Temptation of Christ"

19
WILLIAM BLAKE
"Christ Tempted by Satan to Turn the Stones to Bread"

Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:

“ ‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’ ”

Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”

20
SIMEON SOLOMON
"Thou Shalt Not Tempt"

21
BOTICELLI
"Temptation of Christ"

22
JAMES TISSOT
"The Temptation of Jesus"

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. So if you worship me, it will all be yours.”

23
HANS THOMA
"The Temptation of Christ"

24
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Temptation of Jesus"

25
LUDWIG FERDINAND SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
"The Temptation of Christ"

26
PHILIPS AUGUSTIJN IMMENRAET
"Temptation of Christ"

27
FÉLIX JOSEPH BARRIAS
"The Temptation of Christ by the Devil"

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Source

29
ARY SCHEFFER
"Temptation of Christ"

30
DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA
"The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain"

31
Source

Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’ ”

32
CARL BLOCH
"Christ Rebuking Satan"

33
Source

34
BOTICELLI
"Temptation of Christ"

35
Source

36
"Christ's Temptation"

37
Source

38
JOHN RITTO PENNIMAN
"Christ Tempted by the Devil"

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Then the devil left him until an opportune time, and angels came and attended him.

39
JAMES TISSOT
"Jesus Ministered to by Angels"

New International Version ©1984
*For completeness, multiple Gospel accounts are synthesized here
into a single narrative; for full texts, please consult your Bible.

[Midwesterner53]

Satan is not tempting Christ now, he is too busy working to destroy civilization across the earth and particularly in this country.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Satan is not tempting Christ now

How wonderful it will be to join our glorified Lord beyond Satan's reach!

[InkStone]

Dan, can we imagine what it will be like to lose all of those Worst Parts of Us !

To actually behold the Light of God !

[Hebrews 11:6]

To answer your specific question, "can we imagine", although I understand you posed it rhetorically: it appears we cannot.

"[He] is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power..." Ephesians 3:20

Hugh Ross has two sons. When they were young he and Kathy, extrapolating on this verse, encouraged them at each meal to expand their imaginations by thinking up new features of heaven. They had a two-story home and a backyard pool, so one of them imagined that in heaven every second-story window has its own slide into the pool.

There are numerous reasons why God leaves us on earth for an extended period, more or less, after our salvation moment. One is to grow our faith through experiences (thereby gaining heavenly blessings) and, as a corollary, to expand our imagination.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

I’m back, after a break.

I do not recall these images in the previous thread; perhaps I missed them.

I was intrigued by the various depictions of Satan. As usual, I’m partial to William Blake’s. Paul says Satan can appear as an angel of light, so there’s no need for him to be hideous.

The picture that ‘got me’ was Tissot’s depiction of the angels ministering to Jesus. Aside from his usual artistic mastery, the utter exhaustion of Jesus is authentic; he appears close to death. Then the depiction of the angels, each with a tongue of fire, the Holy Spirit directing them is original and apt.

[nomorelurker]

Thanks for posting these treads very informative. Particularly like Tissot.

[Midwesterner53]

Absolutely but not looking to go right this minute!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Welcome back, Jeff! Somebody needs to be here to be partial to Blake....

the utter exhaustion of Jesus is authentic; he appears close to death

It is unstated in the narrative, but surely it is implied: forty days of utter physical deprivation, followed by the unprecedented stress of the three most severe temptations anyone ever experienced, undoubtedly left him at death's door and in desperate need of angelic room-service. That is what I find unparalleled in Tissot: again and again he finds the central point and presents it to us.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Particularly like Tissot.

As I posted immediately above: That is what I find unparalleled in Tissot: again and again he finds the central point and presents it to us.

[Hebrews 11:6]

not looking to go right this minute!

No? He can take me this very second. "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain."

♫ This world is not my home, I'm just a-passin' through
♫ My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue
♫ The angels beckon me from heaven's open door
♫ And I can't feel at home in this world anymore

[SouthernClaire]

This is the only time, iirc, that I could choose just 1: That is, #4 by Ivan Kramskoy. I think it’s because He has a look on His face that we’ve all known a time or three in our lives and so can identify with it. (Much, much worse in His case, of course and however.) That is in addition to the grand beauty of the painting itself.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Nicely reasoned and expressed, Claire.