Luke 4:1
And Jesus, full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, tempted by the devil forty days.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
2And He ate nothing during those days; and they having been completed, He afterward hungered.
Cross References
Matthew 4:1Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil.
Luke 2:27And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and while the parents are bringing in the little child Jesus, that they may do according to the provisions of law concerning Him,
Luke 3:21And it came to pass while all the people were being baptized, and Jesus having been baptized, and praying, the heaven 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 →