Luke 4:1-4 Part 2 of 3

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry. Then the devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread." But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, 'People do not live by bread alone.' "

 

He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,

Ezekiel 37:1  The LORD took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the LORD to a valley filled with bones.

Luke 2:27-28a  That day the Spirit led him to the Temple. So when Mary and Joseph came to present the baby Jesus to the Lord as the law required, Simeon was there.

 

where he was tempted by the devil 

Matthew 4:1  Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil.

Hebrews 2:18  Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested.

Hebrews 4:15  This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.

 

for forty days. 

Genesis 7:4  "Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created." 

Exodus 24:18  Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mountain. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Numbers 14:34  " 'Because your men explored the land for forty days, you must wander in the wilderness for forty years--a year for each day, suffering the consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me as an enemy.' "

Deuteronomy 9:25  "That is why I threw myself down before the LORD for forty days and nights--for the LORD said he would destroy you."

Jonah 3:4  On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: "Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!"

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