In the First Nocturn of Matins for the Office of the Second Sunday of Lent Holy Mother Church sets forth this important event in sacred history. The famous exegesis by Saint Augustine upon this text, to which Cristian has alluded, is found in the Second Nocturn.
Here is an interesting interpretation found in Daily Breviary Meditations: Meditations for Every Day on the Scriptural Lessons of the Roman Breviary, in accordance with the Encyclical "Divino Afflante," written by His Excellency the Most Rev. Joseph Angrisani, Bishop of Casale-Monferrato, and translated by Rev. Father Joseph A. McMullin of St. Charles Seminary at Philadelphia, PA (New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1954; Imprimatur + Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, 1 January 1954).
Although this commentary is primarily meant for Priests, I think layfolk may fruitfully meditate upon it.