CHAPTER IV. _Jesus, in the wilderness, is tempted by Satan_, 1-11. _He goes into Galilee_, 12; _and Capernaum_, 13. _The prophecy which was thus fulfilled_, 14-16. _He begins to preach publicly_,...
THEN WAS JESUS LED UP OF THE SPIRIT - Led up by the Spirit. Luke says Luke 4:1 that Jesus was “full of the Holy Spirit;” and it was by his influence, therefore, that he went into the desert to be temp...
4. THE TESTING OF THE KING AND HIS TESTIMONY. _ 1. The Testing by the Devil. (Matthew 4:1 .) 2. His Testimony and His Disciples. (Matthew 4:12 .) 3. The Powers of the Kingdom. (Matthew 4:23 .)_ CHAP...
THE TEMPTATION (Mark 1:12 f.*, Luke 4:1 *). Jesus'sudden recognition of His Sonship or Messiah-ship and of the responsibility thus laid upon Him, found natural expression in His retirement into solitu...
THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS. -- Matthew 4:1-11. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ He is able to succor them that are tempted._ -- Hebrews 2:18. TIME. --A. D. 26, forty days after the baptism of the Lord. PLACE. --Supposed...
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After he had deliberately gone without food for forty days and forty nights he was hungry. So the tempter came and said...
THE TESTING TIME (Matthew 4:1-11) Step by step Matthew unfolds the story of Jesus. He begins by showing us how Jesus was born into this world. He goes on to show us, at least by implication, that Jes...
THEN. Immediately after His anointing as Messiah, "the second man" (1 Corinthians 15:47), "the last Adam" (1 Corinthians 15:45), must be tried like "the first man Adam" (1 Corinthians 15:45;
_led up of the Spirit_ The agency of the Spirit of God is named in each of the Synoptists. St Mark uses the strong expression "the Spirit driveth him forth." St Luke uses the preposition ἐν (in) denot...
Matthew 4:1-11. The Temptation of Jesus. Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13 St Mark's account is short; the various temptations are not specified; he adds the striking expression "he was with the wild beasts....
ΤΌΤΕ. The εὐθὺς of St Mark 1:12 points still more clearly to the significant nearness of the Temptation to the Baptism. ἈΝΉΧΘΗ … ὙΠῸ ΤΟΥ͂ ΠΝΕΎΜΑΤΟΣ. The agency of the Spirit of God is named in each o...
THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13. St Mark’s account is short; the various temptations are not specified; he adds the striking expression ἦν μετὰ τῶν θηρίων. St Luke places the tempt...
VER 1. THEN WAS JESUS LED UP OF THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS TO BE TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL. 2. AND WHEN HE HAD FASTED FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS, HE WAS AFTERWARD AN HUNGRED. Pseudo-Chrys.: The Lord...
_JESUS WAS A TEMPTED SAVIOR MATTHEW 4:1-11:_ At this point Jesus began His preaching ministry as described in Isaiah 61:1. "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to...
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DISCOURSE: 1286 CHRIST’S TEMPTATION Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil_. THE agency of Satan in the affairs of man cannot be doubted by a...
THEN WAS JESUS LED UP, &C.— _Then,_ that is to say_,_ immediately after his baptism, _was Jesus led,_ or borne by a strong impulse of the Spirit on his mind, (see Luke 4:14.) _into the wilderness:_ wh...
CHAPTER FOUR Section 7. JESUS IS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL (Parallels: Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13) TEXT: 4:1-11 1. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2....
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. THEN, [ Tote (G5119)] - an indefinite note of sequence. But Mark's word (Mark 1:12) fixes what we should have pre...
16-17 Compare Joh_1:32-34. 16 As God's Spirit has no material form it is figured to us in various ways, which suggest its force and significance. It is usually presented as a blast of air, for this is...
OF THE SPIRIT] i.e. of the Holy Spirit. God Himself ordained that Jesus should be tempted or tried, because only through temptation can human nature attain to perfection. Even the angels had to pass t...
THE TEMPTATION 1-11. The temptation (Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1). The narrative, which can only have come from our Lord's own lips, describes an actual historical fact, the great temptation which He underwen...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 4 THE DEVIL TESTS JESUS 4:1-11 V1 The *Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert. The devil tested Jesus while he was there. V2 For 40 d...
IV. (1) The narrative of the Temptation is confessedly one of the most mysterious in the Gospel records. In one respect it stands almost, if not altogether, alone. It could not have come, directly or...
CHAPTER 5 His Temptation - Matthew 4:1 MUCH has been written on the possibility of temptation in the experience of a sinless Being. The difficulties which have been raised in this region are chiefly...
_The Temptation_ (Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13)....
Τότε, then, implying close connection with the events recorded in last chapter, especially the descent of the Spirit. ἀνήχθη, was led up, into the higher, more solitary region of the wilderness, the h...
TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL Matthew 4:1-11 _Then_ marks the close connection between the heavenly voice of the baptism and the fiery ordeal of the forty days. Notice that temptation is not in itself sin; on...
"Then." After the heavens opened, hell is opened. The King must not only be in perfect harmony with the order and beauty of the heavens, He must face all the disorder and ugliness of the abyss. Goodne...
Then was (1) Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. (1) Christ is tempted in all manner of ways, and still overcomes, that we also through his virtue may overcome....
Jesus Christ was led by the Holy Ghost, immediately after his baptism, into the desert,[1] to prepare, by fasting and prayer, for his public ministry, and to merit for us by his victory over the enemy...
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...
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. CONTENTS CHRIST's temptations. The call of his Apostles. His Preaching and Miracles. I detain the Reader at this v...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_THE PURPOSE OF LENT_ ‘Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.’ Matthew 4:1 Our Lord before He entered upon His public ministry was tempted. He faced the...
Matthew 4:1._Then Jesus was led. _There were two reasons why Christ withdrew into the wilderness. The first was, that, after a fast of forty days, he might come forth as a new man, or rather a heavenl...
Having thus, in grace, taken up His position as man on earth, He commences His earthly career, being led of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. The righteous and holy man, the S...
THEN WAS JESUS LED UP OF THE SPIRIT,.... The Evangelist having finished his account of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ; of his ministry and baptism; and particularly of the baptism of Chris...
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Ver. 1. _Then was Jesus led up_] Lest haply the people, hearing that testimony from heaven, should come and take hi...
_Then_ After the afore-mentioned glorious manifestation of his Father's love, by which he was armed for the combat. _Was Jesus led by the Spirit_ By a strong impulse of the Spirit of God, of which he...
THE SPIRIT; the Holy Spirit. TO BE TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL; as were our first parents in Eden, and as are all their children. Christ must qualify himself for his office of Redeemer by successfully withst...
THE TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS. Jesus, by His baptism and the accompanying supernatural manifestations, had been formally and publicly inaugurated into His ministry. But He was not to begin His prea...
There could be no doubt therefore that He would fulfil this virtual pledge to bear their sins on Calvary. Notice too that the Father approves Him in this unqualified way before His being tested by Sat...
1-11 Concerning Christ's temptation, observe, that directly after he was declared to be the Son of God, and the Saviour of the world, he was tempted; great privileges, and special tokens of Divine fa...
OLBGrk; MATTHEW CHAPTER 4 MATTHEW 4:1 Christ fasts forty days, is tempted of the devil, and ministered unto by angels. MATTHEW 4:12 He dwelleth in Capernaum, MATTHEW 4:17 begins to preach,...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V , whereas even the devil according to our Gospel recognised Jesus in the temptation,[252] Tertullian On Baptism showed, by maintaining a fast of forty days, that t...
Matthew 4:1 Then G5119 Jesus G2424 up G321 (G5681) by G5259 Spirit G4151 into G1519 wilderness G2048 tempted...
‘Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.' Jesus was ‘led up of the Spirit' into the wilderness. The Spirit knew how important it was that He understood how...
JESUS FACES UP TO HIS FUTURE IN THE WILDERNESS (4:1-11). The most momentous moment of His conscious life to date having taken place, Jesus will now have to face up to what it involves. For having bee...
The threefold temptation by Satan; the threefold victory over Satan. He who came ‘to destroy the works of the devil,' triumphs over him in personal conflict. This was the Messiah's _trial_ and _probat...
Matthew 4:1. THEN, immediately after the events mentioned in the last chapter, as Mark more explicitly states. After marked evidence of Divine favor, the most trying conflicts. LED UP BY THE SPIRIT....
TO BE TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL (πειρασθηνα υπο του διαβολου). Matthew locates the temptation at a definite time, "then" (τοτε) and place, "into the wilderness" (εις την ερημον), the same general region...
THEN WAS JESUS The temptation of Christ, the "last Adam" (1 Corinthians 15:45) is best understood when contrasted with that of the "first man Adam." Adam was tempted in his place of lord of creation,...
Matthew 4:1 The record of our Lord's temptation, which is specially commended to our consideration in Lent, must needs be momentous, first, in its import for the comprehension of the spirit of His mi...
Matthew 4:1 I. When the first Adam fell, by temptation, from a garden to a wilderness, from abundance to want, from empire to slavery, from heaven to hell; and when by the same steps as he descended,...
Matthew 4:1 I. One cannot help thinking and wondering why this temptation should take place, and though all the reasons cannot be known, some of them we think we can see. We know there is a devil. Per...
Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil._ What a change it seems from the descent of the Holy Spirit to being led up into the wilderness to be...
Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil._ He had just been baptized, the Spirit of God had descended upon him, and the Father had borne witnes...
CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus' public ministry begun. Call of first disciples. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Satan, John the Baptist, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is t...
Matthew 4:1. _Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit,_ υπο του πνευματος, the Holy Spirit, as indicated by the Greek article, and declared in the verses preseding. _Led into the wilderness,_ where he was...
THEN THE SPIRIT LED JESUS. Mark says the Spirit made him go. INTO THE DESERT. Tradition places the temptation in the deserted area between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, especially on the mountain called...
_To be tempted of the devil._ THE POSSIBILITY AND NECESSITY OF THE TEMPTATION I. If our Lord had not become incarnate He would never have been tempted, for temptation is not possible to God. God is a...
FIGHTING THE DRAGON Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Matthew 4:1. If you look at the back of an old British sovereign or a five-shilling coin, you...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 4:1 Jesus the Messiah Begins to Advance the Messianic Kingdom. Jesus triumphs over the devil in the wilderness (vv. Matthew 4:1), proclaims the kingdom
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
CHAPTER 4 _By the devil_. Syriac, _by the accuser_, Gr. _διάβολος_, _accuser_, _calumniator_. For Satan is he who accuses men before God perpetually, that he may gain them for himself and Gehenna. _T...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS—GENERAL REMARKS _There is only one way of understanding the narrative_, viz. as the history of a real occurrence, of an actual temptation of our Lord by the d...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 4:1 THE TEMPTATION. The Father's acceptance of the Lord's consecration of himself for the work of the kingdom does not exclude temptation, but rather necessitates it. Psychologica...
Chapter Four Then was Jesus led of the Spirit into the wilderness (Matthew 4:1) Immediately, He is now being led by the Spirit, walking after the Spirit. The New Testament has so much to say to us co...
1 Kings 18:12; 2 Kings 2:16; Acts 8:39; Ezekiel 11:1; Ezekiel 11:24;...
The Devil [τ ο υ δ ι α β ο λ ο υ]. The word means calumniator, slanderer. It is sometimes applied to men, as to Judas (John 6:70); in 1 Timothy 3:11 (slanderers); and in 2 Timothy 3:3, and...
THE TEMPTATION Matthew 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The temptation of Christ in the wilderness had no direct bearing upon our salvation, as we are saved by His Blood. However, the temptation did acclaim...
THE TEMPTATION (NO. 2) Matthew 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. "THEN" the word holds our attention. "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." The word "then" c...
Observe, 1. The great humiliation of the Son of God, how exceedingly was he humbled by the horrid temptations wherewith he was assaulted, than which nothing could be more grievous to his holy heart. W...