Clip (<5 mins)
New TestamentBiblical Languages
Evangelical
Did Jesus Need to be Driven into the Desert? (Mark 1:12)
Theologian
Bill Mounce
Duration
3.56
Uploaded to YouTube
26 March 2022
Added to Database
17 December 2025
YouTube description
There are two words in Mark 1:12 that can be translated two different ways, and they both produce a different translation. Is Mark really picturing Jesus as a man in charge, "immediately" going from one thing to another? And did the Holy Spirit need to "drive" Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan, as if Jesus didn't want to go?