[Illustration: Jericho, from plains above.]

After John had baptized a great many persons, he saw coming to him, one
day, for baptism, a Man about thirty years old; and when John looked at
Him, he saw that He was quite different from all the people who had
been to him before. It was Jesus who had come to be baptized before He
began His work. He wanted to obey God in everything; and He wanted to
show that He was the Brother and Friend of all the people whom John had
been baptizing. And so, as Jesus wished it, John went into the River
Jordan with Him and baptized Him.

When Jesus had been baptized, and was full of the Holy Spirit, He went
away into a wilderness. And there, when Jesus was tired and hungry,
Satan came to Him--just as he came to Adam and Eve in the Garden of
Eden--to tempt Him.

To tempt means to try. Mother tries you sometimes, to see whether you
can be trusted; and God tries us all sometimes. But if God tries us,
it is to make us better; and if Satan tries us, it is to make us worse.

Every time that Jesus was tempted, He said, 'It is written,' and then
He told Satan something 'which was written in the Bible. That is the
very best way to fight Satan. The Bible is called 'the Sword of the
Spirit,' and Satan is afraid when he sees us using that Sword. Let us
ask God to fill us, like Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, and then we shall
soon learn how to use the Sword of the Spirit, and we too shall be able
to drive Satan away when he comes to tempt us.

Only we must be sure to read the Bible, as Jesus used to do, or else we