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

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Cross References

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

Luke 2:27So he came in the Spirit into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary under the law,

Luke 3:21Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus had also been baptized and was praying, the heavens were 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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