Genesis 3 and Matthew 4 – Fall and Restoration

Lately, I’ve been looking more and more at Genesis 3 and Matthew 4 as a unit, and here are some thoughts on these two texts.

Genesis 3 contains the account of the temptation of Adam and Eve and their fall into sin. Matthew 4 contains the account of the temptation of Jesus. It is interesting to look at the parallels and differences in these two accounts. They are really two halves of a whole, kinda like the two halves of a pecan shell. In Genesis, we see the opening of the shell to sin and in...