KJV King James Version
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Matthew 4:1
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
WEB World English Bible
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
ASV American Standard Version
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil,
Surrounding context — Matthew 4
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.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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ΤότεG5119 · totethenὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoἸησοῦςG2424 · IēsousJesusἀνήχθηG321 · anagōto leadεἰςG1519 · eistowardτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἔρημονG2048 · erēmosdesertedὑπὸG5259 · hupoby/under: byτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoπνεύματοςG4151 · pneumaspirit/breath: spiritπειρασθῆναιG3985 · peirazōto test/tempt: temptὑπὸG5259 · hupoby/under: byτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoδιαβόλου.G1228 · diabolosdevilish/the Devil
Cross-references
Hebrews 2:18For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.Luke 4:1-13And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,Mark 1:12-15And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.Hebrews 4:15-16For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.Romans 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.Ezekiel 43:5So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.John 14:30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.Ezekiel 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.Ezekiel 3:12Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed [be] the glory of the LORD from his place.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.Ezekiel 40:2In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which [was] as the frame of a city on the south.1 Kings 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.2 Kings 2:16And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.Ezekiel 11:1Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD’S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.Ezekiel 8:3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where [was] the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.Ezekiel 11:24Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
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