Jesus went into the wilderness and was tempted by satan after he had turned water to wine in Cana, and had gone to live in Capernaum.
The above statement is opposed to the traditional view. The traditional view says that Jesus went into the wilderness to be tempted right after he was baptized by John the Baptist. If you research this question you might find the article on Answers in Genesis website by one of their associates, Ron Dudek. Answers in Genesis ministry was founded by Ken Ham, the founder of the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter, in Kentucky, wonderful Christian places I highly recommend. I usually agree with their positions on the Bible, but not in this case. I'm going to do a short review of their article and then give my position.
This is a link to their article: https://answersingenesis.org/jesus/wilderness-or-wedding/ To follow my short review you should read the article by Ron Dudek.
The article "Wilderness or Wedding?" begins with a question that misinterprets scripture and presupposes a contradiction between John's gospel and Mark's gospel.
Was Jesus in the wilderness or at the wedding in Cana three days after His baptism?
If our interpretation causes a contradiction in the scriptures, the problem is not the scriptures, it's our interpretation. The writer does what he tells us not to do, "We should never read our own ideas into the text, but we should rather read them with the intention of finding the Author’s intended meaning." he reads his own idea into the text. In his reading of Mark 1:9-13 he reads it chronologically, the events of each sentence following in order of time, one right after the other. As such he sees no gap in time between Jesus being baptized and then going into the wilderness. The next sentence, which is verse 14 says, "Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee," we should remember that there were no chapter or verse divisions in the original. If we use the writer's rule of interpretation we should assume that after Jesus had been in the wilderness, and then hearing that John was in prison, he went into Galilee, there being no gap in time between those two events. Jesus' wilderness experience would have been followed by John being cast into prison before Jesus went into Galilee. But there is a problem with the writer's interpretation, John was cast into prison months after Jesus was baptized. If Jesus didn't go into the wilderness right after he was baptized, then how do we understand what is meant in Mark 1:12 And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. In the King James Version Mark 1:10 says straightway, but in the version used by the writer of the article Mark 1:10 And immediately, coming up from the water,. the Greek word in verse 10, is a different Greek word used in verse 12. The question we should ask? is why did Mark use a different word that means almost the same thing but not exactly. I think it is because there is a gap in time between Jesus being baptized and his going into the wilderness.
The writer, of the article, wants to explain what some see as a contradiction, by saying that Jesus had gone into the wilderness before he came to John the Baptist in John 1:29. But by his own rule of interpretation, John the Baptist should have been cast into prison. The writer's opening question assumes that it was three days after Jesus was baptized that John's gospel places him in Cana, John 2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. John's gospel tells us that Jesus was where John the Baptist was for two days, then on the third day, he departed into Galilee. It is about 100 miles to Cana from where John was baptizing, it would take three days to make that journey on foot. On the third day, he would make it to Cana. The answer to his question is neither, Jesus wasn't in the wilderness and wasn't at the wedding in Cana three days after he was baptized.
My Position
Mark in his gospel says that Jesus came from Nazareth and was baptized by John in the Jordan River. And the spirit like a dove descended upon him, Mark 1:9-10.
John's gospel doesn't tell of Jesus's baptism or wilderness testing. John speaking in the past tense says he saw the spirit descending like a dove on Jesus. Some of John's disciples follow Jesus and stay with him that night, it being the tenth hour, or about 4 P.M. John 1:24-51. The "day after" in verse 29 isn't necessarily the day after Jesus was baptized. It could be the day after John was questioned by those sent from Jerusalem. Jesus could have gone up to Jerusalem after he was baptized to one of the three feasts that every Jew was required to present himself before God at Jerusalem and then come back to where John was at the Jordan River, verse 29. "The day following" of verse 43 would be the third day after John was questioned by those that had been sent from Jerusalem, Jesus goes into Galilee.
Jesus goes to Cana of Galilee, which is the hometown of Nathanael. This is the third day after Jesus had left Judaea to go into Galilee, John2:1-12. At Cana Jesus turns water to wine, afterwards, he goes to Capernaum to live.
Jesus goes from Capernaum to Jerusalem for Passover, afterwards, he goes down to the Jordan River, John is baptizing nearby. John had not yet been cast into prison, John 2:13- 3:24. Between John 3:24 and 4:1 Jesus was in the wilderness, being tempted by Satan. Jesus goes through Samaria and meets the woman at the well. After two days he goes into Galilee, John 4:43, Mark 1:14, Luke 4:14, Matthew 4:12.
In Luke's and Matthew's gospels, we learn that Jesus came to Nazareth when he came into Galilee.
He reads from the scriptures and then says, Luke 4:23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. From this, we learn that he had been living in Capernaum before he went into the wilderness. John's gospel also tells us this.
