Luke 4:1

And Jesus full of the Holy Ghost turned again from (the) Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into (the) desert (And Jesus full of the Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan River, and was led by the Spirit into the desert)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

2(for) forty days, and was tempted of the devil (or and was tested by the Devil), and [he] ate nothing in those days; and when those days were ended, he hungered.

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:12And when I shall depart from thee, the Spirit of the Lord shall bear thee away into a place which I know not; and I shall enter, and tell to Ahab, and he shall not find thee, and he shall slay thee; forsooth thy servant dreadeth the Lord from his young childhood. (And when I shall leave thee, the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee away to a place which I know not; and I shall go, and tell Ahab, but he shall not find thee, and then he shall kill me; and know ye that thy servant feareth the Lord or revereth the Lord, from his young childhood.)

Isaiah 11:2And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of strength, the spirit of knowing and of piety;

Ezekiel 3:14Also the spirit raised me, and took me. And I went forth bitter in the indignation of my spirit; for the hand of the Lord was with me, and comforted me. (And the spirit raised me up, and took me away. And I went forth in the bitterness and the anger of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was with me, and was strong upon me.)

Matthew 4:1Then Jesus was led of a spirit into desert, to be tempted of the fiend [or of the devil]. (Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert, to be tested by the Devil.)

Luke 2:27And he came in (the) Spirit into the temple (or And directed by the Spirit he came to the Temple). And when his father and mother led [in] the child Jesus to do after the custom of the law for him,

Luke 3:21And it was done, when all the people was baptized, and when Jesus was baptized, and prayed, heaven was opened (or 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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