Quarantania

Quarantania (from Latin quaranta, forty, referring to Christ's forty-day fast) is the traditional name for the mountain near Jericho identified as the site of Jesus's temptation, where the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world (Matthew 4:8; Luke 4:5). The mountain, known in Arabic as Jebel Quruntul, rises steeply from the Jordan valley floor to approximately 1,200 feet above the plain, overlooking ancient Jericho. From its summit on a clear day the view extends across the Jordan valley and into Transjordan. A Greek Orthodox monastery carved into the cliff face of the mountain commemorates the forty days of Christ's temptation, and the site has been a pilgrimage destination since the early centuries of Christianity.