Question:  Greg,

            How can the Bible talk about the time Jesus was alone?  How did biblical authors know what happened when Jesus was tempted by the devil?  No one else was present.  Please respond, I have been wondering for a long time.

            Thank you,

            Taylee

Answer:  Dear Taylee,

There are a number of such explanations in the Bible that are given to the original authors by God’s inspiration.  We read, for example, what Jesus was thinking.  The authors did not know what Jesus was thinking—that information had to be revealed to them.  The temptation, to which you refer, is another example.  No other human being was present.  This had to be revealed by God, or quite possibly, Jesus himself told the author about what happened, after the fact.

            In Christ,

            Greg Albrecht