Matthew 4:1
Then was Jesus led by the Holy Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the Calumniator
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
In Context
2And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he hungered.
Cross References
Luke 4:1And Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. And the Spirit led him 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 →