Suffering servant or conquering Messiah? Israel had long awaited their conquering Messiah. Many sects had arisen claiming that their leader would be him, but each one rose and fell. Our Savior was called by the Holy Spirit of God to go into the desert for 40 days to show who the Messiah really was—a suffering servant sent to heal His people. Old Testament Parallels in Jesus’s Temptation When we see Jesus in the desert we can see Old Testament parallels. Jesus, the second A
