Temptations try human character. Though God often brings men into situations where temptations to sin are strong, he also gives them the means of resisting and overcoming them; and if they do overcome them, they will both honor him and benefit themselves.
On the temptation of Jesus, see the notes at Matthew 4:1. Luke 4:2 BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED - That is, through forty days he was “tried” in various ways by the devil. The temptations, however, which...
CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 4:1-13 _ 1. The Temptation in the Wilderness. (Luke 4:1 .)_ 2. The Devil Defeated. (Luke 4:13 .) Luke 4:1 What interests us most is the different order in which the three temptat...
THE TEMPTATION (Mark 11:21.*, Matthew 4:1 *). In the order of the episodes Lk. follows a geographical (rather than a psychological) sequence, putting the Jerusalem incident last. The other divergences...
THE BATTLE WITH TEMPTATION (Luke 4:1-13)...
Jesus came back from the Jordan full of the Holy Spirit. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, and for forty days he was tempted by the devil; and in those days he ate nothing, and when they w...
FORTY. See App-10. Compare Exodus 34:28; Numbers 14:34; 1 Kings 19:8. Read, as in Revised Version, "forty days, being", &c. TEMPTED. troubled and tried. OF. by. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. Not the same
_forty days_ The number was connected in the Jewish mind with notions of seclusion, and revelation, and peril; Moses on Sinai, Exodus 34:18; Elijah, 1 Kings 19:8; the wanderings of the Israelites, Num...
ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ΤΕΣΣΕΡΆΚΟΝΤΑ. The number was connected in the Jewish mind with notions of seclusion, and revelation, and peril;—Moses on Sinai, Exodus 34:18; Elijah, 1 Kings 19:8; the wanderings of the Israeli...
Luke 4:1-13. THE TEMPTATION...
VER 1. AND JESUS BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST, RETURNED FROM JORDAN, AND WAS LED BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS, 2. BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL. AND IN THOSE DAYS HE DID EAT NOTHING: AND...
ΠΕΙΡΑΖΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΠΕΙΡΆΖΩ (G3985) испытывать, искушать, здесь в отрицательном значении (ΒΟΝΟΗ). _Praes. part._ здесь может выражать цель (Matthew 4:1; RG, 891). По поводу искушения...
BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED, &C.— _Where he was forty days, and he was tempted by the devil._ Bengelius and Heylin. See Matthew 4:2. For notes on this remarkable transaction we refer to that chapter and...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Victory of Jesus Over Temptation Scripture_ Luke 4:1-13 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness 2 during forty...
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, For the exposition, see the notes at Matthew 4:1, and Mark 1:35. As observed on Matthew...
19 Compare Mat_14:3-5; Mar_6:17-18. 19 Herod's treatment of John is here inserted ahead of time to close the account of John's ministry before opening that of his Master's. 21-22 Compare Mat_3:13-17...
THE TEMPTATION. NAZARETH. CAPERNAUM 1-13. The Temptation (Matthew 4:1; Mark 1:12). See on Mt....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 4 JESUS AND THE DEVIL 4:1-13 V1-2 Jesus returned from the river Jordan. He was full of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit led him into the desert for 4...
IV. (1-13) BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST. — See Notes on Matthew 4:1. The words used by St. Luke describe the same fact as those used by St. Matthew and St. Mark, and agree with the Spirit given “not...
CHAPTER 7 THE TEMPTATION. THE waters of the Jordan do not more effectually divide the Holy Land than they bisect the Holy Life. The thirty years of Nazareth were quiet enough, amid the seclusions of...
ἡμέρας τεσσ.: this is to be taken along with ἤγετο. Jesus wandered about in the desert all that time; the wandering the external index of the absorbing meditation within (Godet). πειραζόμενος : Lk. re...
_The Temptation_ (Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13). Lk.'s account of the temptation resembles Mt.'s so closely as to suggest a common source. Yet there are points of difference of which a not improbable...
THE THREEFOLD TEMPTATION Luke 4:1-13 As the waters of Jordan bisect the Holy Land, so does our Lord's baptism bisect His holy life. In that act He had identified Himself with the world's sin; and no...
As man Jesus was tempted. All the words with which He rebutted the attacks of Satan were quotations from the divine law for the government of human life. The exhaustive nature of the temptation is rev...
In collating the present narrative with that of St. Matthew it appears the Jesus Christ was not tempted till the expiration of forty days. (Bible de Vence) --- Many reasons may be assigned why Christ...
THE TEMPTATION Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13. Matthew says that _“He was led by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.”_ Mark says: “The Spirit immediately impels Him away...
1 _st. Luke 4:1-2_. By these words, _full of the Holy Ghost_, this narrative is brought into close connection with that of the baptism. The genealogy is therefore intercalated. While the other baptiz...
FOURTH NARRATIVE: THE TEMPTATION, LUKE 4:1-13. Every free creature, endowed with various faculties, must pass through a conflict, in which it decides either to use them for its own gratification, or t...
(1) And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, (2) Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and w...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_CHRIST IN THE WILDERNES[1]_ ‘Jesus … was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil.’ Luke 4:1 [1] In the volume on Matthew, twenty-four pages are devoted to the...
_TEMPTED THROUGH THE BODY_ ‘And in those days He did eat nothing.… Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ Luke 4:2 I. TEMPTED THROUGH THE BODY.—Each one of us has a body, and...
The unknown Son of God on earth, Jesus, is led (chapter 4) into the wilderness by the Holy Ghost, with whom He had been sealed, to undergo the temptation of the enemy, beneath which Adam fell. But Jes...
BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read the phrase, "forty days", in connection with the latter part of the preceding verse; according...
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. Ver. 2. _Being forty days_] During which time be was set upon all sorts o...
_Being forty days tempted_ According to Luke here, and Mark 1:12, he was tempted of Satan during the whole of these forty days; but we are favoured with no account of the various subtle arts which tha...
BEING FORTY DAYS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL. AND IN THOSE DAYS HE DID EAT NOTHING; AND WHEN THEY WERE ENDED, HE AFTERWARD HUNGERED....
THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Luke 4:1 The first temptation:...
TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL (vs.1-13) The Father having pronounced His delight in His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus was led by the Spirit of God into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. In Mark 1:12 it...
1-13 Christ's being led into the wilderness gave an advantage to the tempter; for there he was alone, none were with him by whose prayers and advice he might be helped in the hour of temptation. He w...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 4:2", and following verses to MATTHEW 4:4....
Luke 4:2 tempted G3985 (G5746) forty G5062 days G2250 by G5259 devil G1228 And G2532 in G1722 those...
JESUS GOES INTO THE WILDERNESS TO PREPARE FOR HIS LIFE'S WORK AND IS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL (4:1-12). So as He contemplates His future ministry Jesus has to consider the way in which He will go about it...
‘And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness during forty days, being tempted of the Devil. And he ate nothing in those days, and when the...
THE TEMPTATION. See on Matthew 14:1-11. The _second_ temptation in Matthew's account is placed last by Luke. The order of Matthew is correct, because Matthew uses _phrases_ (Luke 4:5; Luke 4:8) which...
Luke 4:2. DURING FORTY DAYS, BEING TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL. ‘During forty days' may be joined either to what precedes or what follows. The former seems preferable, though ‘being tempted' indicates a cont...
BEING TEMPTED (πειραζομενος). Present passive participle and naturally parallel with the imperfect passive ηγετο (was led) in verse Luke 4:1. This is another instance of poor verse division which sh...
TEMPTED (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:1). _...
Luke 4:1 "Tempted like as we are.". The temptation, as is evident from the language employed, was in some way connected with the descent of the Holy Spirit upon our Lord; and we are thus taught that...
Luke 4:1 Victory over the Besetting Sin. Our Lord, in defeating Satan's temptations, taught us also how to overcome them: (1) by answering Satan at once; (2) by not vouchsafing to enter into his sub...
Luke 4:1. _And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness Вѕ_ «Full of the Holy Ghost» Вѕand then led «into the wilderness» to be tempted....
CONTENTS: Temptation of Jesus. Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth. Casting of demons out of man at Capernaum. Healing of Peter's wife's mother and others. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Satan, Josep...
Luke 4:2. _Being tempted forty days he afterward hungered._ During this space he lived like Moses on the mount, conversing with the Father in all the glories of his kingdom. His humanity was renovated...
_Being forty days tempted of the devil._ And in these days He did eat nothing THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST; A great part of the force and power of Christ’s example here is lost upon men, through their s...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 4:2 FORTY DAYS. Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness corresponds to Israel’s 40 years of testing in the wilderness (Deuteronomy 8:2). Moses also fasted an
SATAN TEMPS JESUS IN THE DESERT MATTHEW 4:1-11; MARK 1:12-13; LUKE 4:1-13; MATTHEW 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness t
CHAPTER 4 VER. 1. _And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan_, having been there baptized by John a little time before, and having _visibly_ received the Holy Spirit, whose fulness...
_Tempted of the devil._ In the Greek _πειζαξόμενος_, suffering or sustaining temptation by the devil. See Commentary on Matthew 4:5....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 4:1. FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST.—Which had descended upon Him in full measure at His baptism. LED BY THE SPIRIT—Or, “in the Spirit” (cf. Luke 2:27); abiding in the Spirit as the elem...
EXPOSITION LUKE 4:1 THE TEMPTATION. The consecration of our Lord in his baptism was immediately followed by what is known as his temptation. It is, perhaps, the most mysterious and least understood...
And Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit returned from Jordan (Luke 4:1), Now He was at Jordan where He was baptized by John, and He returned from Jordan. and was led by the Spirit into the wildernes...
1 Kings 19:8; 1 Samuel 17:16; Deuteronomy 9:18; Deuteronomy 9:25;...
THE TEMPTATION Luke 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Testing the tempter. At first thought this heading may seem impossible. Was the tempter the one whom the Lord was testing? Let us weigh the meaning of...
PETER THE SON AND SERVANT Luke 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We well remember a stained, art-glass window in which the artist had depicted Peter floundering in the sea of Galilee and half drowned. That Pe...
Is there a mistake in the temptation of Jesus recorded by Matthew and Luke? (See comments on Matthew 4:5-10)...
Observe here, how the divine power upheld Christ's human nature without food. What Moses did at the giving of the law, Christ doth at the beginning of the gospel, namely, FAST FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIG...