1. Matthew 4:1 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What conflict reaches its climax when Satan starts to tempt Jesus?

Matthew 4:1 (ESV)

1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

The conflict announced in Genesis 3:15. Here the representative of mankind (the “seed of the woman,” the second Adam) faces the devil. Satan bites as high as he can in his attempt to destroy man, but he gets no further than his heel. Man crushes the head of the devil.