After having been baptised by John, Jesus spends forty days and nights in the desert. Matthew, Mark and Luke write that the Holy Spirit led him into the desert. After forty days of fasting, the Devil tries (in vain) to tempt him to give up his loyalty to God, his father.
Matthew and Luke name three temptations.
Christ manages to resist every temptation by referring to what is written in the Bible:
Related works of art:
Anonymous: The Temptation of Christ (c. 800)
Botticelli: The Temptations of Christ (1481-1482)
Doré, Gustave: The Temptation by the Devil (1865)