Luke 4:1

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

2for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:12It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that the LORD’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.

Isaiah 11:2The LORD’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.

Ezekiel 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the LORD’s hand was strong on me.

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

Luke 2:27He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,

Luke 3:21Now when all the people were baptised, Jesus also had been baptised and was praying. The sky 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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