Matthew 4:1
Then Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was led up into the midbar by the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem to undergo nisyonos (temptations) by HaSatan.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 18:12And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Ruach + 18:12 Hakodesh of Hashem shall carry thee to where I know not; and so when I come and tell Ach'av, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me; but I thy eved fear Hashem from my youth.
Ezekiel 3:12Then the Ruach + 3:12 Hakodesh lifted me and took me up, and I heard behind me a kol ra'ash gadol (a voice of a great rustling), saying, Baruch Kavod Hashem from His makom (place, home).
Ezekiel 8:3And He put forth the form of a yad, and took me by a lock of mine rosh; and the Ruach lifted me up between Ha'Aretz and Shomayim, and brought me in mar'ot Elohim ([divinely granted] visions) to Yerushalayim, to the Petach Sha'ar Hapenimit (entrance of the inner gate), the one facing north; where was the moshav (seat) of the semel hakinah (statue of jealousy), which provoketh [ Hashemʼs] jealousy.
Ezekiel 11:24Afterward the Ruach lifted me up, and brought me in a mar'eh (vision) [inspired] by the Ruach Elohim into Kasdim (Chaldea, Babylon), to them of the Golus. So the mareh (vision) that I had seen went up from me.
Ezekiel 43:5So the Ruach + 43:5 Hakodesh lifted me up, and brought me into the khatzer hapenimi and, hinei, the Kavod Hashem filled the Beis. + 43:5 HaMikdash
Luke 4:1Now Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, full of the Ruach Hakodesh, returned from the Yarden, and was being led by the Ruach Hakodesh bamidbar,
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 →