Artist Commentary: In the desert, Satan offers three temptations to Christ: to misuse his gifts for physical good, spiritual presumption, and worldly power. He tempts the Lord to make bread from stones, to throw himself from the Temple to test God, and to pay homage to Satan in exchange for authority over the kingdoms of this world. Jesus rejects each offer with Scripture. He seeks only the will of his Father in heaven, the goods and the authority that are given from above.