Luke 4:1

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, all the time tempted by the devil.

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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

2He ate nothing during these days, and at the close of them he was hungry.

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Cross References

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

Luke 2:27And he came into the Temple, led by the Spirit. and when his parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the law,

Luke 3:21Now after all the people had been baptized, and Jesus himself had been baptized and was praying,

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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