And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, (Luke 4:1 KJV)
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness (Luke 4:1 ASV)
But Jesus, full of [the] Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness (Luke 4:1 DBY)
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness (Luke 4:1 WEB)
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness, (Luke 4:1 YLT)
Interlinear
And /de/ Jesus /Iesous/ being full /pleres/ of the Holy /hagios/ Ghost /pneuma/ returned /hupostrepho/ from /apo/ Jordan, /Iordanes/ and /kai/ was led /ago/ by /en/ the Spirit /pneuma/ into /eis/ the wilderness, /eremos/ (Luke 4:1 KJV)
Matthew Poole’s Commentary
Ver. 1. This is mentioned by two of the other evangelists, (Mr 1:12 Lu 4:1). Luke saith that, being full of the Holy Ghost, he returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit, &c. Mark saith, immediately the Spirit drove him. Great manifestations of Divine love are commonly followed with great temptations. Others observe, that temptations usually follow baptism, the beginnings of spiritual life, and covenants made with God. He was led up: some think he was taken up; Mark useth the word ekballei, the Spirit thrust him out: we must not understand an act of compulsion, doubtless, he went voluntarily.
by the Spirit; the Holy Spirit, that lighted upon him as a dove.
Into the wilderness. Mark’s saying, Mr 1:13, that he was there with wild beasts, lets us know that it was not such a wilderness as John began to preach in, Mt 3:1; but a howling wilderness full of wild beasts. The end is expressed in the last words, to be tempted of the devil: thus his temptations are distinguished from Divine temptations, such as Abraham had, Ge 22:1; and by tempted here is meant solicited, or moved to sin, in which sense God tempteth no man, Jas 1:13. The general notion of tempting is, making a trial; God makes a trial of his people for the proof and manifestation of their gracious habit. Satan, by moving to sin, makes a trial of corruption, which was the reason that, although Christ was tempted, that he might be able to succour those that are tempted, Heb 2:18, and that he might taste all those evils to which we are exposed, and might overcome the devil; yet when the Prince of this world came, he could effect nothing against him, because he found nothing in him to comply with his motions.
William Burkitt’s Commentary
At the twenty-second verse of the foregoing chapter, we find the Holy Ghost descending in a bodily shape like a dove upon our Saviour. In this verse, we find the extraordinary effects and fruits of the Holy Ghost’s descent upon our Saviour: he was filled with all the gifts and graces of the blessed Spirit, to fit and furnish him for that ministerial service which he was now entering upon.
But observable it is, that before our Saviour undertook the ministerial office, he is led by the Spirit into the wilderness, and there furiously assaulted with Satan’s temptations. Temptation, meditation, and prayer, says Luther, make a minister: great temptations from Satan do fit us for greater services for God.
And whereas it is said, that Christ was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil by the Spirit, we must understand the Holy Spirit of God; for the devil, I think, is never called the spirit, but has always a brand of reproach annexed, as the evil spirit, the unclean spirit, and the like.
By his being led by the Spirit, (St. Mark says he was driven by the Spirit,) we may either understand a potent and efficacious persuasion, without any violent motion: or else, as the learned Dr. Lightfoot thinks, Christ was bodily caught up by the Holy Spirit into the air, and carried from Jordan, where he was baptized, into the wilderness, where he was tempted.
God had put great honour upon Christ at his baptism, declaring him to be his well-beloved Son, in whom he was well pleased; and the next news we hear is the devil assaulting him with his temptations.
Learn thence, that the more any are beloved of God, and dignified with more eminent testimonies of his favour, so much the more is the devil enraged and maliciously bent against them.