Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
In Context
2And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:12And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of LORD will carry thee where I know not. And so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will kill me. But I thy servant fear LORD from my you
Ezekiel 3:12Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of LORD from his place.
Ezekiel 8:3And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks
Ezekiel 11:24And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
Ezekiel 43:5And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court, and, behold, the glory of LORD filled the house.
Luke 4:1And Jesus, full of Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:1
John Baptist said concerning Christ, He must increase, but I must decrease; and so it proved. For, after John had baptized Christ, and borne his testimony to him, we hear little more of his ministry; he had done what he came to do, and thenceforward there is as much talk of Jesus as ever there had been of John. As the rising Sun advances, the morning star disappears. Concerning Jesus Christ we have in this chapter, I. The temptation he underwent, the triple assault the tempter made upon him, and the repulse he… Read the whole commentary →