V.1 Remember, and remember that the Lord Jesus is, at the same time, GOD and a Man. He always was GOD, the Son of God, but He became a Man only when He came to this earth and was born in a stable at Bethlehem in Israel. The Bible is the written Word, He is the Living Word. Read 17 words in John 1:1. Now, as a Man, He felt physically everything that any other man feels: hunger, thirst, tiredness, how people treated Him, and so on. Our first verse tells us that He was “led,” and “tempted” of the devil. Verse 5 says the devil taking (or leading) Him; verse 9 says he (the devil) brought Him, and “set Him” etc. As a Man He depended entirely on God (read Heb. 4:15).
V.2-13 Adam had been tempted and he failed. The fruit of the tree in Genesis was said to be “good for food” the lust of the flesh, “pleasant to the eye” the lust of the eye and a “tree to be desired to make one wise” the pride of life. This appealed to Adam and he fell. Now the Lord meets the same three temptations “make these stones bread” the lust of the flesh, “all this power will I give thee and the glory” the lust of the eye, “cast thyself down from this pinnacle” the pride of life. But the Lord Jesus did not fail nor could He fail, for He was God manifest in flesh, and He was and ever is, HOLY. The Lord met each temptation with a quotation from the Scriptures (Deut. 8:3; 6:13; 6:16). We also have the Word of God to direct and guide us. Use it quickly when you are tempted, by the same devil! But you need to be reading it each day in order to be familiar with it.
V.16-20 In Isaiah 61:1-2, you will see that the Lord stopped reading in the middle of the sentence. Because He would bear that vengeance Himself for us! But if people reject Him, God’s vengeance will surely fall on them (Rev. 19:11-13; John 3:36).
V.29 He had just begun to preach and His words were “gracious” (v. 22), yet they tried to get rid of Him, because He mentions blessings to Gentiles (vvs. 25-27).
V.33-34 He keeps on preaching and healing and blessing what a wonderful Savior!