“He himself was tempted” (Hebr 2:18)

This chapter aims at analysing the different narrative accounts of Jesus’ temptation in the New Testament. It will focus on two different but interrelated strands: The synoptic temptation stories and the depiction of the topic in the letter to the Hebrews. Section 1 will look into the narrative accounts of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, the moments of weakness and agony in his Gethsemane prayer as well as in his outcry at the cross, and the petition not to be led into temptation by the Father in the Lord’s Prayer. Section 2 then investigates Jesus’ temptation in his fear of death within the Christological framework of the letter to the Hebrews. Section 3 discusses whether Jesus could have failed in the face of a test.