Matthew and Luke clearly present the temptations of Jesus as the reliving of Israel's wanderings in the wilderness so that Jesus is a second Israel (Matt. 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13), and the apostle Paul sketches the notion that Jesus is the second Adam (Rom. 5:12-21), and the writer of Hebrews clearly says that Jesus had to be made like us in every way so that he, as the greatest of all high priests, could ransom us from our condition (Heb. 2:14-18).
