After his baptism, Jesus sets off for a forty-days ….

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Question: How would the Jews interpret Jesus’ forty days in the Judean wilderness?

Answer: After his baptism, Jesus sets off for a forty-days retreat in the Judean wilderness. Led by the Spirit, Jesus fasts and prays, and at the end he is tested by the devil. The number forty evokes Israel’s forty-year sojourn in the wilderness, where they also were led by the Spirit. Jesus’ fasting is reminiscent of Moses’ forty-day fast on Mount Sinai. But above all, three tests by Satan uses to tempt Jesus echo the testing of Israel in the wilderness. In response to each of the devil’s temptations, the gospel of Matthew details Jesus quoting Deuteronomy, in which Moses recounts Israel’s failures in the wilderness and its spiritual lessons (Matthew 4:4, 4:7, 4:10, and Deuteronomy 8:10, 6:16, 6:13, respectively). This points to the larger picture Matthew is painting: how Israel’s story and Jesus’ story share a profound parellel. Matthew suggests that Jesus is not only a new Moses; he is the new Israel. Precisely where God’s firstborn son Israel (Exodus 4:22) stumbled in the wilderness, Jesus is faithful; the vocation and storyline of Israel finds its long-waited fulfillment, in the person of Jesus, God’s faithful firstborn Son. 🤟📿🙏📿🙏💜🕊️🔥✡️✝️🕊️🔥🙏

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I read on Matthew 28:16-20 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition and learn something about “Jesus and His Baptism”.

The Commissioning of the Disciples

¹⁶ Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. ¹⁷ And when they saw him they worshiped him; but some doubted. ¹⁸ And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.”

All the Old Covenant prefigurations find their fulfillment in Christ Jesus. He begins his public life after having himself baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan.* After his resurrection Christ gives this mission to his apostles: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.”* – The Sacrament of Baptism, CCC 1223

Christians are baptized “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”* Before receiving the sacrament, they respond to a three-part question when asked to confess the Father, the Son, and the Spirit: “I do.” “The faith of all Christians rests on the Trinity.”* – I. “In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”, CCC 232

*Matthew 28:19 ¹⁹ Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

The first “profession of faith” is made during Baptism. The symbol of faith is first and foremost the baptismal creed. Since Baptism is given “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”* the truths of faith professed during Baptism are articulated in terms of their reference to the three persons of the Holy Trinity. – The Creed, CCC 189

Matthew 28:19-20 refers Mark 16:15

And he (Jesus) said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. – Mark 16:15

Please read slowly Mark 16 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition in order:

The Resurrection of Jesus

16 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Mag′dalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salo′me, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.^[a] 2 And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. ³ And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?” ⁴ And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back; for it was very large. ⁵ And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed. ⁶ And he said to them, “Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here; see the place where they laid him. ⁷ But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you.” ⁸ And they went out and fled from the tomb; for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

⁹ Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Mag′dalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. ¹⁰ She went out and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. ¹¹ But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

Jesus Appears to Two Disciples

¹² After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. ¹³ And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.

Jesus Commissions the Disciples

¹⁴ Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table; and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. ¹⁵ And he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; ¹⁸ they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”🤟🙏💜🔥🕊️📿

The Ascension of Jesus

¹⁹ So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. ²⁰ And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.^[b][c]

Footnotes

1. 16.1 There had been no time on the Friday to anoint him before the sabbath rest.
2. Mark 16:20 Other ancient authorities omit verses 9–20. Some ancient authorities conclude Mark instead with the following: But they reported briefly to Peter and those with him all that they had been told. And after this, Jesus himself sent out by means of them, from east to west, the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.
3. 16.9-20 This passage is regarded as inspired and canonical scripture even if not written by Mark. As it is missing from some important manuscripts, it is possible that Mark did not write it. On the other hand, he would hardly have left his Gospel unfinished at verse 8. Many think that the original ending was lost at a very early date and that this ending was composed at the end of the apostolic period to take its place.