Luke 4:1

And Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,

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And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

In Context

2For forty days, while tempted by the devil. And during those days he ate nothing: and when they had ended, he was hungry.

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Cross References

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

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

Luke 3:21Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also was baptized, and as he was praying, 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 →

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