1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
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Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. …
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. …
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam , bespeak him to be the seed of the woman ; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent’s head , baffling and foiling the devil in all his temptations, who by one temptation had baffled and foiled our first parents. Thus, in the beginning of the war, he made reprisals upon him, and conquered the conq…
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