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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Luke 4:1-13

The Temptation (Mark 11:21.*, Matthew 4:1 *). In the order of the episodes Lk. follows a geographical (rather than a psychological) sequence, putting the Jerusalem incident last. The other divergences from Mt. are of no moment, but we may note Lk.'s stress on the inspiration of Jesus (Luke 4:1, cf. Luke 4:14), and the apt saying that the devil left Him only for a season (cf. Luke 22:28, Matthew 16:23; John 6:15; John 14:30). For a good study of the Temptation see Seeley's Ecce Homo, ch. ii.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    On the temptation of Jesus, see the notes at Matthew 4:1. Luke 4:2 BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED - That is, through forty days he was “tried” in various ways by the devil. The temptations, however, which...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 4:1-13 _ 1. The Temptation in the Wilderness. (Luke 4:1 .)_ 2. The Devil Defeated. (Luke 4:13 .) Luke 4:1 What interests us most is the different order in which the three temptat...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Jesus came back from the Jordan full of the Holy Spirit. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, and for forty days he was tempted by the devil; and in those days he ate nothing, and when they w...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Catena Aurea Commentary

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 4:1, and Mark 1:35. As observed on Matthew...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 7 THE TEMPTATION. THE waters of the Jordan do not more effectually divide the Holy Land than they bisect the Holy Life. The thirty years of Nazareth were quiet enough, amid the seclusions of...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _The Temptation_ (Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13). Lk.'s account of the temptation resembles Mt.'s so closely as to suggest a common source. Yet there are points of difference of which a not improbable...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE THREEFOLD TEMPTATION Luke 4:1-13 As the waters of Jordan bisect the Holy Land, so does our Lord's baptism bisect His holy life. In that act He had identified Himself with the world's sin; and no...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And (1) Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, (1) Christ, being carried away (as it were out of the world) into the desert, comes sud...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    THE TEMPTATION Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13. Matthew says that _“He was led by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.”_ Mark says: “The Spirit immediately impels Him away...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    1 _st. Luke 4:1-2_. By these words, _full of the Holy Ghost_, this narrative is brought into close connection with that of the baptism. The genealogy is therefore intercalated. While the other baptiz...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    FOURTH NARRATIVE: THE TEMPTATION, LUKE 4:1-13. Every free creature, endowed with various faculties, must pass through a conflict, in which it decides either to use them for its own gratification, or t...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, (2) Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and w...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS Christ's Temptations. His Preaching in the Synagogue. He casteth out a Devil, and cureth many that were sick....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _CHRIST IN THE WILDERNES[1]_ ‘Jesus … was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil.’ Luke 4:1 [1] In the volume on Matthew, twenty-four pages are devoted to the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The unknown Son of God on earth, Jesus, is led (chapter 4) into the wilderness by the Holy Ghost, with whom He had been sealed, to undergo the temptation of the enemy, beneath which Adam fell. But Jes...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND JESUS BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST,.... The Spirit of God having descended on him at his baptism, and afresh anointed, and filled his human nature with his gifts, whereby, as man, he was abundantl...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, Ver. 1. _Returned from Jordan, and was led_] No sooner out of the water of baptism, but in...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, &c., was led up of the Spirit into the wilderness_, &c. Supposed by some to have been in Judea; by others to have been the great desert of Horeb, or Sinai, wh...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    Christ's fasting and temptation in the desert. Matthew 4:1-11....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Luke 4:1 The first temptation:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL (vs.1-13) The Father having pronounced His delight in His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus was led by the Spirit of God into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. In Mark 1:12 it...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-13 Christ's being led into the wilderness gave an advantage to the tempter; for there he was alone, none were with him by whose prayers and advice he might be helped in the hour of temptation. He w...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OLBGrk; LUKE CHAPTER 4 LUKE 4:1 Christ fasts forty days, and is tempted of the devil. LUKE 4:14,15 He begins to preach. LUKE 4:16 The people of Nazareth wonder at his gracious words, but being offende...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 4:1 Then G1161 Jesus G2424 filled G4134 Holy G40 Spirit G4151 returned G5290 (G5656) from G575 Jordan...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness during forty days, being tempted of the Devil. And he ate nothing in those days, and when the...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JESUS GOES INTO THE WILDERNESS TO PREPARE FOR HIS LIFE'S WORK AND IS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL (4:1-12). So as He contemplates His future ministry Jesus has to consider the way in which He will go about it...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Luke 4:1. FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, which came upon Him at His baptism. ‘Full of the Holy Spirit,' He throughout this conflict wields victoriously ‘the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.'...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    THE TEMPTATION. See on Matthew 14:1-11. The _second_ temptation in Matthew's account is placed last by Luke. The order of Matthew is correct, because Matthew uses _phrases_ (Luke 4:5; Luke 4:8) which...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (πληρης πνευματος αγιου). An evident allusion to the descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism (Luke 3:21). The distinctness of the Persons in the Trinity is shown t...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Luke 4:1 Victory over the Besetting Sin. Our Lord, in defeating Satan's temptations, taught us also how to overcome them: (1) by answering Satan at once; (2) by not vouchsafing to enter into his sub...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Luke 4:1 "Tempted like as we are.". The temptation, as is evident from the language employed, was in some way connected with the descent of the Holy Spirit upon our Lord; and we are thus taught that...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Luke 4:1. _And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness Вѕ_ «Full of the Holy Ghost» Вѕand then led «into the wilderness» to be tempted....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth. Casting of demons out of man at Capernaum. Healing of Peter's wife's mother and others. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Satan, Josep...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Luke 4:2. _Being tempted forty days he afterward hungered._ During this space he lived like Moses on the mount, conversing with the Father in all the glories of his kingdom. His humanity was renovated...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    AND WAS LED BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE DESERT. See notes on Matthew 4:1-11....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness_ THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST How is the temptation of Christ to be understood? As a history,...

  • The Gospels Compared

    SATAN TEMPS JESUS IN THE DESERT MATTHEW 4:1-11; MARK 1:12-13; LUKE 4:1-13; MATTHEW 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness t

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 4 VER. 1. _And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan_, having been there baptized by John a little time before, and having _visibly_ received the Holy Spirit, whose fulness...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 4:1. FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST.—Which had descended upon Him in full measure at His baptism. LED BY THE SPIRIT—Or, “in the Spirit” (cf. Luke 2:27); abiding in the Spirit as the elem...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LUKE 4:1 THE TEMPTATION. The consecration of our Lord in his baptism was immediately followed by what is known as his temptation. It is, perhaps, the most mysterious and least understood...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit returned from Jordan (Luke 4:1), Now He was at Jordan where He was baptized by John, and He returned from Jordan. and was led by the Spirit into the wildernes...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 18:12; 1 Kings 19:4; Acts 1:2; Acts 10:38; Acts 8:39;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Was led. So Matthew. Mark says, " The Spirit driveth, [ε κ β α λ λ ε ι] or thrusteth him forth. By the Spirit [ε ν τ ω π ν ε υ μ α τ ι]. The American Revisers render in the spirit, indicating the sph...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    PETER THE SON AND SERVANT Luke 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We well remember a stained, art-glass window in which the artist had depicted Peter floundering in the sea of Galilee and half drowned. That Pe...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE TEMPTATION Luke 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Testing the tempter. At first thought this heading may seem impossible. Was the tempter the one whom the Lord was testing? Let us weigh the meaning of...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The wilderness — Supposed by some to have been in Judea; by others to have been that great desert of Horeb or Sinai, where the children of Israel were tried for forty years, and Moses and Elijah faste...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Is there a mistake in the temptation of Jesus recorded by Matthew and Luke? (See comments on Matthew 4:5-10)...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    At the twenty-second verse of the foregoing chapter, we find the Holy Ghost descending in. bodily shape like. dove upon our Saviour. In this verse we find the extraordinary effects and fruits of the H...

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