Luke 4:10

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 4:13, the prevalent opinion has always been that our Lord paid two visits to Nazareth: the first being that recorded here; the second that recorded in Matthew 13:54-40, and Mark 6:1. This is maintained on the following grounds: First, The most natural sense of the words in...

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 who knew his own strength might give Satan advantage; but we may not, who know our own weakness. Being in all things made like unto his brethren, Jesus would, like the other children of God, live in dependence upon the Divine Providence and promise. The word of God is our sword, and faith in that word is our shield. God has many ways of providing for his people, and therefore is at all times to be depended upon in the way of duty. All Satan's promises are deceitful; and if he is permitted to have any influence in disposing of the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, he uses them as baits to insnare men to destruction. We should reject at once and with abhorrence, every opportunity of...

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 are recorded by Matthew and Luke did not take place until the forty days were finished. See Matthew 4:2. HE DID EAT NOTHING - He was sustained by the power of God during this season of extraordinary fasting. Luke 4:13 DEPARTED FOR A SEASON - For a time. From this it appears that our Saviour was “a

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 of any of the scenes of the public ministry related by the evangelists. It is related at some length by SS. Matthew and Luke, with very slight difference of detail, the principal one being the order in which the three great temptations occurred. In St. Mark the notice of this strange episode in the life is very short, but harmonizes perfectly with the longer accounts of SS. Matthew and Luke. St John omits it altogether; first, because, with the earlier written Gospels before him, he was aware that the Church of his Master already possessed ample details of the occurrence; and secondly, the

FOR IT IS WRITTEN,.... In Psalms 91:11 "He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee; and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone." It is an observation made long ago by Jerom, on Psalms 91:11 that Satan, in citing this text, has left out the middle clause, TO KEEP THEE IN ALL THY WAYS, which he knew was against him, and has only taken that which made for him; and on Matthew 4:6 he observes, that this prophecy is not concerning Christ, but any holy man; therefore the devil wrongly interpreted Scripture; and that had he certainly known, that this is written concerning the Saviour, he ought to have cited what follows, "thou shalt tread upon the li

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. You would not expect that. Yet it is a sadder thing to be led into a wilderness when you are not filled with the Spirit, and a sadder thing to be tempted when the Spirit of God is not resting upon you. The temptation of our Lord was not one to which he wantonly exposed himself, he «was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.» The Spirit of God may lead us where we shall have to endure trial. If he does so, we are safe; and we shall come off conquerors even as our Master did. Luke 4:2. _Being forty days tempted of the devil._ Six weeks of temptation. We read the story of the temptation, perha

ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _ TO KEEP After Satan's failure to tempt the Lord away from the Word, he seeks to tempt Him by it. He however misquotes by the omission of "in all thy ways" (Psalms 91:11). The Lord's "ways" were those marked out for Him in perfect dependence upon His Father's will. Compare (Hebrews 10:7); (Hebrews 10:9)....

LUKE 4:5-12 In order to bring Luke’s account of the Temptation into harmony with the sequence of temptations in Matthew ( Matthew 4:5-11), several Old Latin witnesses (itb, c, l, q, r1), at least one Vulgate manuscript (G), and Ambrose in his Commentary on the Gospel According to Luke, 7 transpose verses Luke 4:5-8 to follow verses Luke 4:9-12. ------------------------- 7 Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucan...

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 temptations of the Lord are reported by Luke. The second temptation the devil brings to bear upon Him (in the high mountain) is the last in the Gospel of Matthew. Why did Luke change the order and put the second temptation last and the last temptation into the second place? Matthew gives, no doubt, the correct order. The Lord's word to Satan, “Get thee behind me, Satan,” proves this. (These words must be omitted in the 8th verse. They are not found in the best manuscripts.) The order in Luke corresponds to the nature of man

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