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Matthew 4:1

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

KJV

Τότε ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀνήχθη εἰς τὴν ἔρημον ὑπὸ τοῦ πνεύματος, πειρασθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου.

Greek NT

Tunc Jesus ductus est in desertum a Spiritu, ut tentaretur a diabolo.

Vulgate

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

ASV

Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

People Jesus
Places Wilderness of Judea
Symbols Desert

In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

διάβολος
diabolos
adjective · 37×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
πειράζω
peirazo
verb · 38×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
τότε
tote
adverb · 157×
ἀνάγω
anago
verb · 23×
ἔρημος
eremos
adjective · 48×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑπό
upo
preposition · 221×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§394Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning", who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father.273 "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil."274 In its consequences the gravest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God.
§2849Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter, both at the outset of his public mission and in the ultimate struggle of his agony.159 In this petition to our heavenly Father, Christ unites us to his battle and his agony. He urges us to vigilance of the heart in communion with his own. Vigilance is "cu…
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. Then he suffers Him. 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. For inasmuch as many supposed that John was greater than He, because John had been brought up all his time in the wilderness, and was son of a chief priest, and was c…
2. Having then found Him in the wilderness, and in a pathless wilderness (for that the wilderness was such, Mark has declared, saying, that He was with the wild beasts Mark 1:13), behold with how much craft he draws near, and wickedness; and for what sort of opportunity he watches. For not in his fast, but in his hunger he approaches Him; to instruct you how great a good fastin…

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 2Cor 11:14 — And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
  • 2Tim 3:3 — Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
  • Ezek 3:12 — Then 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.
  • 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 43:5 — So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
  • Gen 3:15 — And 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.
  • Heb 2:18 — For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
  • Heb 2:18 — For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
  • Heb 4:15 — For 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.
  • John 14:30 — Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
  • 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 4:1 — And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
  • Luke 4:1 — And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
  • Mark 1:12 — And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
  • Mark 1:12 — And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
  • Ps 89:22 — The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
  • Ps 118:13 — Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
  • Rev 12:9 — And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
  • Rom 8:14 — For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.