The power to get more power. The temptation of Jesus in the desert can be read many ways, but what if we read it through the lens of using power to acquire more power? What if here Jesus is already demonstrating his unwillingness to work this system, to play the odds, to win friends and market share? We can imagine that his “yes” to any of these trials would have yielded a “successful” ministry…right?

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