Luke 4:1
Now Jesus being full of the holy Spirit, returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted by the devil;
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
2and He did eat nothing in all those days: and when they were ended, at last He was hungry.
Cross References
Matthew 4:1Then was Jesus led by the spirit into the wilderness, to be tempted by the devil:
Luke 2:27And he came by the influence of the Spirit into the temple, as his parents brought in the child Jesus to do concerning Him according to the custom of the law:
Luke 3:21Now, when all the people were baptized, and Jesus was baptized and 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 →