Luke 4:1

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

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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

2forty days, tempted by the Devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry.

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Cross References

Isaiah 11:2The spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of the knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah,

Ezekiel 3:14So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.

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

Luke 2:27And he came in 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, when all the people had been baptized, and Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying, that 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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