Luke 4:1

And Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. And the Spirit led him into the wilderness,

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

2forty days, to be tempted by the Calumniator. And during those days, he ate nothing; and when he had completed them, he was at last hungry.

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Cross References

Matthew 4:1Then was Jesus led by the Holy Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the Calumniator

Luke 2:27This man came, by the Spirit, into the temple; and when his parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him as is commanded in the law,

Luke 3:21And it occurred, when all the people were baptized, that Jesus also was baptized. And as he prayed, the heavens were 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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