They Left Him And Went Away - Matthew 22:17-22

Matthew 22:17-22 ESV 

Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away.

The devil came to Jesus in the wilderness to test Him. Jesus rebuffed his attempts to tempt and trap Him away from the purpose of the Father. This He did by using the word written in Scripture. Satan would leave Him for another time. 

Jesus then encounters the children of Satan, a brood of vipers as John the Baptist called them, and they would continue the testing of the Son of Man. Jesus would speak the word and they also would go away, only to try again at a later time. 

Satan is still tempting the body of Christ. Jesus answered with the word of God and the devil went away. The same will work for us and defeat the wiles and deception of Satan. But some of us will leave Him and go away. Some will come back. Some will stay, by staying in the word.