Luke says that the devil left him when he "had ended every temptation" (4:13). Are we to understand that the devil never tempted the Lord again? Luke 4:13 indicates that the devil's temptations ended on that occasion "for a season," or "until an opportune time." The devil's opportune time will occur before the passion and death of Jesus (22:3, 31-32, 53). It was after Jesus endured the desert wilderness that he withstood temptation. Alone and defenseless against the wind and the weather, exposed to both day and night, and even exposed to the seeming absence of God, this experience of desert wilderness is a part of human growth and maturity.