And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. (Mark 1:12 KJV)
And straightway the Spirit driveth him forth into the wilderness. (Mark 1:12 ASV)
And immediately the Spirit drives him out into the wilderness. (Mark 1:12 DBY)
And immediately doth the Spirit put him forth to the wilderness, (Mark 1:12 YLT)
Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. (Mark 1:12 WEB)
Interlinear
And /kai/ immediately /euthus/ the Spirit /pneuma/ driveth /ekballo/ him /autos/ into /eis/ the wilderness. /eremos/ (Mark 1:12 KJV)
The four-fold Gospel (ASV)
XIX. JESUS TEMPTED IN THE WILDERNESS. Mt 4:1-11; Mr 1:12,13; Lu 4:1-13
And straightway. Just after his baptism, with the glow of the descended Spirit still upon him, and the commending voice of the Father still ringing in his ears, Jesus is rushed into the suffering of temptation. Thus abrupt and violent are the changes of life. The spiritually exalted may expect these sharp contrasts. After being in the third heaven, Paul had a messenger of Satan to buffet him (2Co 12:7).
The Spirit driveth him forth. The two expressions “driveth” and “led up” (Mt 4:1; Lu 4:1) show that Jesus was drawn to the wilderness by an irresistible impulse, and did not go hither of his own volition (Eze 40:2). He was brought into temptation, but did not seek it. He was led by God into temptation but was not tempted by God. God may bring us into temptation (Mt 6:13; 26:41; Job 1:12; 2:6), and may make temptation a blessing unto us, tempering it to our strength, and making us stronger by the victory over it (1Co 10:13; Jas 1:2,12), but God himself never tempts us (Jas 1:13).
Into the wilderness. The wilderness sets in the back of Jericho and extends thence along the whole western shore of the Dead Sea. The northern end of this region is in full view from the Jordan as one looks westward, and a more desolate and forbidding landscape it would be hard to find. It is vain to locate the temptation in any particular part of it. Jesus may have wandered about over nearly all of it.
(TFG 87-88)
British Family Bible
into the wilderness. It was probably the great wilderness near Jordan, where Jesus was baptized. Bp. Porteus. “The mountainous desert into which our Saviour Jesus was led by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil is a miserable, dry barren place, consisting of high rocky mountains so torn and disordered.
On the left handside, looking down into a steep valley as we passed along, we saw some ruins of small cells and cottages, which, we were told, were formerly the habitations of hermits retiring hither for penance and mortification; and certainly, there could not be found in the whole earth a more comfortless and abandoned place for that purpose.
On descending from these hills of desolation into the plain, we soon came to the foot of mount Quarantania, which they say is the mountain from which the devil tempted our Saviour with that visionary scene of all the kingdoms and glories of the world.
It is, as St. Matthew calls it, an exceeding high mountain, and ascending it is difficult and dangerous. It has a small chapel at the top, and another about halfway up, on a prominent part of a rock.
Near this small chapel are several caves and holes in the sides of the mountain, anciently used by hermits, and by some at this day, for places to keep their Lent in, in imitation of that of our blessed Saviour.” Maundrell.