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Luke 4:1 KJV
Luke · chapter 4 · verse 1
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,Luke 4:1 · King James Version
Luke 4:1 in context
1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
3And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
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Key words (Strong's)
- returnedhypostrephōto turn back, to turn about, to returnG5290 →
- JordaniordanēsJordan = " the descender" , the one river of Palestine, has its course of little…G2446 →
- JesusiēsousJesus = " Jehovah is salvation" , Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind…G2424 →
- Ghostpneumathe third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father…G4151 →
- fullplērēsfullG4134 →
- Holyhagiosmost holy thing, a saintG40 →
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The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam, bespeak him to be the seed of the woman; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent's head, baffling and foiling the devil in all his temptations, who by one temptation had baffled and foiled our first parents.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13