Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

 We must not think that the three temptations came and went like scenes in a play. We must rather think of Jesus deliberately retiring to this lonely place and for forty days wrestling with the problem of how he could win men. It was a long battle which never ceased until the cross and the story ends by saying that the tempter left Jesus--for a season. 