am 4031, ad 27 Jesus: Matthew 4:1-1 Kings : full: Luke 4:14, Luke 4:18, Luke 3:22, Isaiah 11:2-Numbers :, Isaiah 61:1, Matthew 3:16, John 1:32, John 3:34, Acts 1:2, Acts 10:38 and was: Luke 2:27, 1 Kings 18:12, Ezekiel 3:14, Mark 1:12, Mark 1:13, Acts 8:39 wilderness: 1 Kings 19:4, Mark 1:13 Reciprocal: Ezekiel 37:1 - carried Luke 1:41 - was Acts 2:4 - filled Romans 7:21 - evil Romans 11:2 - of Elias read more
forty: Exodus 24:18, Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 9:9, Deuteronomy 9:18, Deuteronomy 9:25, 1 Kings 19:8, Matthew 4:2 tempted: Genesis 3:15, 1 Samuel 17:16, Hebrews 2:18 he did: Esther 4:16, Jonah 3:7 he afterward: Matthew 21:18, John 4:6, Hebrews 4:15 Reciprocal: Isaiah 30:14 - so that Mark 11:12 - he was James 4:7 - Resist read more
The wilderness - Supposed by some to have been in Judea; by others to have been that great desert of Horeb or Sinai, where the children of Israel were tried for forty years, and Moses and Elijah fasted forty days. Matthew 4:1 ; Mark 1:12 . read more
1. Full of the Holy Ghost Bestowed in full measure at his baptism. Returned from Jordan Towards Jerusalem, probably, and thence to Nazareth. This is an important point. It has been objected, How could he be led into the wilderness, when at his baptism he was already in the wilderness? Jesus’s back was towards the wilderness, we reply, and his face and movements toward Jerusalem, or Nazareth, when, as Mark says, “immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.” read more
§ 17. TEMPTATION OF JESUS, Luke 4:1-13 . Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13. read more
2. Being forty days tempted For the full sacred period of forty days had the devil permission to inject into the intellect of the man Jesus distrust of his divine Sonship, awful conceptions of his Messianic suffering appealing to his will for a recantation, exhibitions of the selfish uses to which he may put his miraculous powers, and high imaginations of the grandeur he might attain if he would pervert his supernatural endowments to the attainment of dominion. When the forty days were at... read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 4:2
2 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 of temptations. These three here recorded were likely the very worst, in quibus diabolus omnes astus et fraudis sum sacculos deplevit (as one saith), wherein the devil did his utmost. read more