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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 4:1-44

Chapter 4And 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 wilderness ( Luke 4:1 ),Now the Judean wilderness stretches from an area just fifteen miles north of Jericho, and continues on down to the Dead Sea. And it extends back to what are known as the Jerusalem Hills, and it is a very barren, desolate area known as the Judean wilderness. There is about an... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 4:1-44

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, the glory of the only begotten shone through all his person. He was here prepared in body and in mind for the godlike sphere in which he was called to move, and in which he developed his character to be what the demons called him, the Holy One of God. Young men entering on the ministry should... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 4:8

Luke 4:8Get thee behind Me, Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.--The necessity of a quick and speedy rejection of a sinful motion is, then, beyond dispute, and there needs no more to be said for the explanation of this direction, but an account of what is implied in a speedy denial. It contains these four things:--1. That it must issue from a fixed determination against sin. 2. This positive denial must be also wisely jealous of Satan,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:8

8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Ver. 8. Get thee behind me ] See Trapp on " Mat 4:10 " read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Luke 4:8

Get: Matthew 4:10, Matthew 16:23, James 4:7, 1 Peter 5:9 for: Luke 4:4, Deuteronomy 6:13, Deuteronomy 10:20, Matthew 4:10, Revelation 19:10, Revelation 22:9 only: 1 Samuel 7:3, 2 Kings 19:15, Psalms 83:18, Isaiah 2:11 Reciprocal: Daniel 3:15 - ye fall Matthew 4:4 - It is Mark 8:33 - Get Luke 4:10 - it read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Luke 4:8

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Deuteronomy 6:13. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 4:1-13

§ 17. TEMPTATION OF JESUS, Luke 4:1-13 . Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13. read more

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