Luke 4:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was guided by the Spirit in the waste land

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  • Matt 4:1-9 : 1 Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One. 2 And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it. 3 And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread. 4 But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, 6 If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone. 7 Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test. 8 Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; 9 And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship. 10 Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only. 11 Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.
  • Mark 1:12-13 : 12 And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land. 13 And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.
  • Luke 2:27 : 27 And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law,
  • Luke 3:3 : 3 And he came into all the country round about Jordan, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
  • Luke 4:14 : 14 And Jesus came back to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news of him went through all the country round about.
  • Luke 4:18 : 18 The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,
  • John 3:34 : 34 For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.
  • Acts 10:38 : 38 About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.
  • 1 Kgs 18:12 : 12 And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.
  • Acts 1:2 : 2 Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:
  • Acts 8:39 : 39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took Philip away; and the Ethiopian saw him no more, for he went on his way full of joy.
  • John 1:32 : 32 And John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and resting on him.
  • Isa 11:2-4 : 2 And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 3 And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears: 4 But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
  • Isa 61:1 : 1 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
  • Ezek 3:14 : 14 And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.
  • Matt 3:16 : 16 And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove;
  • Luke 3:21-22 : 21 Now it came about that when all the people had been given baptism, Jesus, having had baptism with them, was in prayer, when, the heaven being open, 22 The Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

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  • Matt 4:1-9
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    1 Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.

    2 And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.

    3 And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.

    4 But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.

    5 Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,

    6 If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

    7 Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.

    8 Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;

    9 And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship.

  • Luke 4:2-5
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    2 For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.

    3 And the Evil One said to him, If you are the Son of God, give orders to this stone to become bread.

    4 And Jesus made answer to him, It has been said in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need.

    5 And he took him up and let him see all the kingdoms of the earth in a minute of time.

  • Mark 1:8-14
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    8 I have given you baptism with water, but he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit.

    9 And it came about in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was given baptism by John in the Jordan.

    10 And straight away, coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens broken open and the Spirit coming down on him as a dove:

    11 And a voice came out of heaven, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

    12 And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land.

    13 And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.

    14 Now after John had been put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the good news of God,

  • Luke 4:12-14
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    12 And Jesus made answer and said to him, It is said in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.

    13 And when all these tests were ended the Evil One went away from him for a time.

    14 And Jesus came back to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news of him went through all the country round about.

  • Matt 4:11-14
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    11 Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.

    12 Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee;

    13 And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali:

    14 So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true,

  • Luke 4:9
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    9 And he took him to Jerusalem and put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down from here; for it is said in the Writings,

  • Matt 3:16-17
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    16 And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove;

    17 And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

  • John 4:3
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    3 He went out of Judaea into Galilee again.

  • Luke 1:80
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    80 And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

  • Matt 3:13
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    13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.

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    1 And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,

  • Matt 19:1
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    1 And it came about that after saying these words, Jesus went away from Galilee, and came into the parts of Judaea on the other side of Jordan.

  • Luke 3:21-22
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    21 Now it came about that when all the people had been given baptism, Jesus, having had baptism with them, was in prayer, when, the heaven being open,

    22 The Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

  • Luke 2:27
    68%

    27 And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law,

  • Luke 4:42
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    42 And when it was day, he came out and went to a waste place; and great numbers of people came looking for him, and they came to him and would have kept him from going away.

  • Matt 3:5
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    5 Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan;

  • Luke 5:16
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    16 But he went away by himself to a waste place for prayer.

  • Matt 4:25
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    25 And there went after him great numbers from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from the other side of Jordan.

  • Luke 4:16-17
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    16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading.

    17 And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,

  • Mark 1:35
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    35 And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

  • John 10:40
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    40 And he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first gave baptism; and he was there for a time.

  • Luke 1:41
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    41 And when the voice of Mary came to the ears of Elisabeth, the baby made a sudden move inside her; then Elisabeth was full of the Holy Spirit,

  • Mark 1:4
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    4 John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.

  • Luke 1:15
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    15 For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

  • John 8:1
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    1 But Jesus went to the Mountain of Olives.