Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
In Context
2When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
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.
Ezekiel 3:12Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, “Blessed be the LORD’s glory from his place.”
Ezekiel 8:3He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks towards the north, where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
Ezekiel 11:24The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
Ezekiel 43:5The Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the LORD’s glory filled the house.
Luke 4:1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
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 →