Purification in the Desert ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Purification in the Desert ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Immediately after Jesus was baptised in the Jordan by St John the Baptist, “The Spirit drove him out into the desert and he remained there for forty days and was tempted by Satan” (Mark 1:13). St Matthew describes these temptations and the other evangelists show how his tussles with the devil continued in one way or another throughout his public ministry. St John uses the symbolism of light and darkness to describe this struggle that reaches its…