Matthew 4:1
Good News Translation
Then the Spirit led Jesus into the desert to be tempted by the Devil.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

Contemporary English Version
The Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert, so that the devil could test him.

New American Bible
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

was.

Mark 1:12,13 And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the desert. . . .

*etc:

Luke 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led the by the spirit into the desert,

*etc:

Romans 8:14 For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

of the spirit.

1 Kings 18:12 And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy.

2 Kings 2:16 And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants, fifty strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit of the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said: Do not send.

Ezekiel 3:12,14 And the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory of the Lord, from his place. . . .

Ezekiel 8:3 And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a lock of my head: and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, that looked toward the north, where was set the idol of jealousy to provoke to jealousy.

Ezekiel 11:1,24 And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the east gate of the house of the Lord, which looketh towards the rising of the sun: and behold in the entry of the gate five and twenty men: and I saw in the midst of them Jezonias the son of Azur, and Pheltias the son of Banaias, princes of the people. . . .

Ezekiel 40:2 In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain: upon which there was as the building of a city, bending towards the south.

Ezekiel 43:5 And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court: and behold the house was filled with the glory of the Lord.

Acts 8:39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took away Philip: and the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing.

to.

Genesis 3:15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

John 14:30 I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.

Hebrews 2:18 For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

Hebrews 4:15,16 For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin. . . .

Context
The Temptation of Jesus
1Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. 2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.…
Cross References
Mark 1:12
And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the desert.

Mark 1:13
And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was tempted by Satan. And he was with beasts: and the angels ministered to him.

Luke 4:1
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led the by the spirit into the desert,

Hebrews 4:15
For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

James 1:14
But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

Matthew 3:17
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