Being tempted by the devil is certainly a challenge, and Jesus handled it masterfully. There was a second period of temptation in this story, and it must have also been great: the temptation to tell those who know you best what you know they want to hear. In his hometown, probably surrounded by a few people who had become his admirers through the years, Jesus instead decides to upset their comfortable worship service. He had just resisted the temptation from the devil to become great on the world’s terms, after all. He certainly wasn’t going to turn around and do it in the synagogue. But why did those people need to be upset so? Only Jesus knows, but I suspect their definition of him needed some redefining. He got his wish, and they almost tossed him over a cliff for it.