Luke 4:1

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

In Context

2and was there forty days, to be tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days; and when they were ended, he was afterward hungry.

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Cross References

Matthew 4:1Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil.

Luke 2:27And he came by the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the law,

Luke 3:21And it came to pass, while all the people were being immersed, that Jesus also was immersed; and as he was praying, the heaven was opened,

Matthew Henry on Luke 4:1

We left Christ newly baptized, and owned by a voice from heaven and the descent of the Holy Ghost upon him. Now, in this chapter, we have, I. A further preparation of him for his public ministry by his being tempted in the wilderness, of which we had the same account before in Matthew as we have here, ver. 1-13 . II. His entrance upon his public work in Galilee ( ver. 14, 15 ), particularly, 1. At Nazareth, the city where he had been bred up ( ver. 16-30 ), which we had no account of before in Matthew. 2 . At… Read the whole commentary →

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