Luke 4:1

BUT Jeshu, being full of the Spirit of Holiness, returned from the Jurdan, and the Spirit led him into the desert,

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

2to be tempted forty days by the accuser. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were fulfilled, afterwards he hungered.

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Cross References

Matthew 4:1THEN Jeshu was led by the Spirit of Holiness into the desert, that he should be tempted by the Accuser.

Luke 2:27Behold, this man came in the Spirit to the temple, and when his parents brought in Jeshu the child, to do for him as it is commanded in the law,

Luke 3:21But it was when he had baptized all the people, and also Jeshu he baptized. And while he prayed,

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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