Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
St. Mark (chap. i, ver. 13) tells us, Christ was with wild beasts, eratque cum bestiis, meta ton therion. Ver. 5. Assumpsit, paralambanei. statuit eum, istesin. St. Gregory, hom. 16. in Evang. t. 1. page. 1492. Ed. Ben. Quid mirum si se ab illo permisit in montem duci, qui se pertulit etiam a membris illius crucifigi?