Intense Moment in the Desert

Here's what blows my mind about this moment: I remember reading The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis and then later seeing the movie. In this scene Satan comes to Jesus in the form of a serpent, one of the desert dwellers. It's a powerful image and scary. (To spend all that time with no food and then be scared out of my wits by a snake would be about the last straw for me.) Yet Jesus keeps his wits as well as his faith, turning every temptation upside down with Scriptural references. So this time the snake leaves, but we know he's coming back... and as I imagine it, so did Jesus.

When would the master of lies strike again? I wonder if that thought nagged Jesus in the back of his mind everytime he was doing his father's work. When he fed the five thousand, was Satan waiting to say "Gotcha!" When he rebuked the demons, would Satan tell him "My property...keep out" When he walked on water... would he be ridiculed for showing off? Or did he just accept that this too was part and parsel of the job he was chosen to do, and never gave it a second thought from when or where the final blow would come? He was truly human. He had bad days too. Did this threat nag him at all?