Gospel Note
Of particular interest in Mark's very succinct version of Jesus' desert temptation is the literary "hinge" between it and the divine pronouncement of Sonship at Jesus' baptism that precedes it; for the idea that one blessed with heavenly approval might be "driven" at once by God's Spirit into a wilderness (or desert) inhabited by a tempting Satan and wild beasts (and some helpful angels, to be sure) might well shatter any no…