The Spirit of God has led Jesus into the wilderness for a forty-day sojourn of soul-searching. Certainly the number forty and the location of Jesus’ temptations are not lost on us. Moses and the Israelites spent forty years wandering in the wilderness, and they too were tempted. When the words “forty” and “wilderness” are around the Bible, you can count on something important going on.

Rev Canon Robert Edmunds, Lent 1, 13 March 2011 (PDF)