And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
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- WEB Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the 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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- Matt 4:1–11Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
- Acts 10:38How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
- Mark 1:12–13And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
- Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
- Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
- John 3:34For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
- Matt 3:16And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
- John 1:32And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
- Ezek 3:14So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
- Luke 4:14And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
- Isa 11:2–4And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
- Luke 3:21–22Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
- Acts 8:39And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
- Luke 2:27And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after 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: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
- Acts 1:2Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
- Luke 3:3And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
- 1 Kgs 18:12And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
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