Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:12And when I am gone from thee, the spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab, and he not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy.
Ezekiel 3:12And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory of the Lord, from his place.
Ezekiel 8:3And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a lock of my head: and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, that looked toward the north, where was set the idol of jealousy to provoke to jealousy.
Ezekiel 11:24And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into Chaldea, to them of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God: and the vision which I had seen was taken up from me.
Ezekiel 43:5And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court: and behold the house was filled with the glory of the Lord.
Luke 4:1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert,
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 →