Endnote 25 – Triumph over Temptation

This conclusion is made all the more probable by the fact that Jewish theologians created the same sort of story. According to the Babylonian Talmud, God tested Abraham with many trials. In one such trial, Satan and the patriarch trade texts from Scripture, exactly as Satan and Jesus do in the gospels (BT, Sanhedrin 89b, which is quoted in Davies and Allison, Matthew, p. 352).