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According to the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ is tested twice in His life. The first test is the death threat by the King Herod during His childhood , and the second test is his temptations by the devil before Jesus begins life of Messiah. However, in 「Seihonohito」(The Man of the West) by Akutagawa, there is the text about Jesus tempted by Satan. The purpose of this thesis is to observe the meaning, by Akutagawa, of the temptation of Satan focused on chapter 12, . First Jesus Christ is tempted with the bread by Satan, and Akutagawa did not deny but admitted the necessity of the bread. This implies that the humans also need to be mentally nourished (the Logos) as other animals can live on just bread. Second, Akutagawa argued that Jesus overcomes the temptation since Jesus is a "fateful child" controlled by the Holy Spirit, and could not live His own life. Third, Akutagawa stated that “keeping himself away all the earthly dreams", because the "Child of the Holy Spirit" is led by the Holy Spirit, He views importance of Heaven. After the three temptations, Satan "left from Jesus Christ for a while." Akutagawa had a special emphasis on "for a while" expression; he tried to imply the Satan's persistence and human's weakness because Jesus was both the "Child of the Holy Spirit" and the Virgin Mary's child, which symbolizes His life on the earth. Eventually, I discovered Akutagawa's 'View toward Jesus Christ' by studying Satan's temptations from chapter 12, .