Mark 1:13 reads "and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him."

Matt. 4:11 reads "Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him."

The question is: Does Mark give different detail than Matthew. Did angels attend to Jesus (I don't mean feed him) during the 40 days? This portion of Mark is clearly a summary, so it may have been Mark's way of writing the same information, but it also may be different information. There many times when the detail from gospel to gospel is different. I just wonder if this is one of them.

Is it possible that Marks is telling us that the angeles protected Jesus from harm during his time in the wilderness? And also attended him after the devil had tempted him. Even Satan notes the potential for the angel's assistance in the second temptation.

The one conclusion that I have reached is that we too often jump to conclusions by reading the "preferred" gospel account and too often don't consider that the detail might get in the way of the real point of why God inspired the writer to write a certain way.