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The stark desert above Jericho, remembered as the place of Jesus's forty days of fasting and temptation. The Judean wilderness is a real, harsh landscape of bare hills and ravines dropping toward the Dead Sea; the specific hill, Jabal Quruntul, with a monastery clinging to its cliff, is the traditional Mount of Temptation.
- Where it is
- Near Jericho
- Scripture
- Matthew 4:1-11 · Luke 4:1-2
What the evidence confirmsThe Judean wilderness near Jericho is a real, forbidding desert that fits the setting of the temptation account.
What it does not proveThe Gospels fix no particular place; the specific mountain is a traditional identification.
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