Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
Being tempted of the devil ...  One should not fail to see in the placement of this phrase the subtle hand of critical scholarship.  The placement here seems to indicate that the temptation was continuous throughout forty days; but a glance at  Matthew 4:1-4 shows that this was not the case.  Satan came to Christ after the forty days of fasting ended. Advocates of the rendition here evidently had the purpose of making Luke agree with Mark against Matthew to support the Markan theory of synoptic criticism; but this rendition is incorrect.  As Lamar said: