Welcome to Form Live. I'm Tim Gray, president of the Augustine Institute, and joining me as one of our professors of Scripture, Dr. Michael Barber.

We'll be with you. We enjoy this Bible study and hope you can join us for this continuation of our Bible study.

We're going to pick up with Matthew Chapter 4. And every Wednesday, we're going to be walking through the gospel of Matthew

and you're welcome to join us, grab a Bible. We use the Augustine Bible so you know what

version we use, which is the English standard version, Catholic edition, which is known for

its accuracy, its closeness to the Hebrew and Greek. That's why we like using it, especially

for our study purposes. And it's what we recommend for our graduate students here at the Augustine Institute as well.

So we're going to jump into chapter four of the Gospel of Matthew, and it's the story of Jesus's temptation in the wilderness.

Jesus goes out in the wilderness, and he fast and prays for 40 days and 40 nights. And of course, this is the wilderness. Jesus goes out in the wilderness and he fasts and prays for 40 days

and 40 nights. And of course this is the passage that the church always gives us to begin Lent.

You know, as we do the 40 days of Lent. That's the scene here. So we're going to dive into the

temptation of Jesus. But before we do that, Michael, you've been with me in Israel, and I don't know if you've

been with me in the Wadi Kelt, which is the traditional place in this valley that's just

in the Judean wilderness and goes up north of the city of Jericho, where Jesus, according to

tradition, prayed for the 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness.

And it would be an appropriate place.

I remember my first take my first hike down there.

There's all kinds of caves down in this canyon, and it's very, very hot.

And I remember it was probably about 120 degrees or so.

And I climbed down and got into one of the caves.

And these are caves that David lived in and hid from when he was being hunted by Saul. This is kind of the places where the Maccabees and others would hide out from the Greeks.

Lots of cavemen in the old house.

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