Luke 4:1
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
KJV
Ἰησοῦς δὲ πλήρης πνεύματος ἁγίου ὑπέστρεψεν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, καὶ ἤγετο ἐν τῷ πνεύματι ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ
Greek NT
Jesus autem plenus Spiritu Sancto regressus est a Jordane : et agebatur a Spiritu in desertum
Vulgate
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness
ASV
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led by the spirit into the desert,
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- πλήρης πνεύματος ἁγίου — SBLGNT
- πλήρης πνεύματος ἁγίου — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- πνεύματος ἁγίου πλήρης — Robinson-Pierpont
- ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ — SBLGNT
- ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- εἰς τήν ἐρήμον — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§695Anointing. the symbolism of anointing with oil also signifies the Holy Spirit,30 to the point of becoming a synonym for the Holy Spirit. In Christian initiation, anointing is the sacramental sign of Confirmation, called "chrismation" in the Churches of the East. Its full force can be grasped only in relation to the primary anointing accomplished by the Holy Spirit, that of Jesu…
Was there any habitual grace in the soul of Christ? Were there virtues in Christ? Did He have faith? Did He have hope? Were there the gifts in Christ? Was the gift of fear in Christ? Were there any gratuitous graces in Christ? Was there prophecy in Christ? Was there the fulness of grace in Him? Was such fulness proper to Christ? Was the grace of Christ infinite? Could it have b…
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 19:4 — But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my l
- Acts 1:2 — Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
- Acts 2:4 — And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
- Acts 8:39 — And 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.
- Acts 10:38 — How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
- Ezek 3:14 — So 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.
- Ezek 37:1 — The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
- Isa 11:2 — And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
- Isa 61:1 — The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and th
- John 1:32 — And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
- John 3:34 — For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
- Luke 1:41 — And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
- Luke 2:27 — And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
- Luke 3:21 — Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
- Luke 4:14 — And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
- Luke 4:18 — The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sig
- Mark 1:12 — And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
- Mark 1:12 — And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
- Matt 3:16 — And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
- Matt 4:1 — Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
- Matt 4:1 — Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
- Rom 7:21 — I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.