Luke 4:1

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

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

In Context

2where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:12I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.

Isaiah 11:2The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

Ezekiel 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.

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

Luke 2:27Led by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for Him what was customary under the Law,

Luke 3:21When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, 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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