Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
Parallel translations
- KJV And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
- BSB Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
- NKJV Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
- NASB Now Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness
- NLT Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
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Filled with the Spirit, Jesus is led into the wilderness. The Spirit who anointed Him at baptism now leads Him into testing.
Overview
Immediately after His baptism and anointing, Jesus is full of the Holy Spirit and led by that same Spirit into the wilderness. The testing is not outside God's plan but within it, as the Spirit-led Son is prepared for His mission. Where Israel and Adam failed in their testing, Jesus, the true Son, will prove faithful.
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Cross-references · 18
- Matt 4:1–11Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
- Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
- Mark 1:12–13Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
- Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
- Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
- John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
- Matt 3:16Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
- John 1:32John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
- Ezek 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.
- Luke 4:14Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.
- Isa 11:2–4Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
- Luke 3:21–22Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,
- Acts 8:39When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.
- Luke 2:27He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,
- 1 Kgs 19:4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
- Acts 1:2until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
- Luke 3:3He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
- 1 Kgs 18:12It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.
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