‘Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil’ Matthew 4:11

For thirty years, I would have preached about the temptations of Jesus on the first Sunday in Lent, and would have had cause to reflect on them on many other occasions, and not once in all that time did I ask the question, ‘who is telling this story?’

Of course, the Gospel reading around the world today will be the story of the temptations as told by Saint Matthew, but how …