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LUKE 4:1 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 4Luke 4:2
“And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,”
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — full of the Holy Spirit (plērēs pneumatos hagiou) is Luke's characteristic description of those whom the Spirit empowers for ministry. The Spirit that descended at the baptism now leads Jesus into the wilderness — the same Spirit is both the gift at the baptism and the guide into the testing. The wilderness is not where the Spirit abandons Jesus but where the Spirit takes him.

Church Fathers on Luke 4:1

Christ is tempted after His baptism, showing us that after we are baptized, temptations await us. Hence it is said, But Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit it, &c.

Theophylact · 11th century

God said in times past, My Spirit shall not always abide in men, for that they are flesh. But now that we have been enriched with the gift of regeneration by water and the Spirit, we are become partakers of the Divine nature by participation of the Holy Spirit. But the first-born among many brethren first received the Spirit, who Himself also is the giver of the Spirit, that we through Him might also receive the grace of the Holy Spirit.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

When therefore you read that Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit, and it is written in the Acts concerning the Apostles, that they were filled with the Holy Spirit, you must not suppose that the Apostles were equal to the Savior. For as if you should say, These vessels are full of wine or oil, you would not thereby affirm them to be equally full, so Jesus and Paul were full of the Holy Spirit, but Paul’s vessel was far less than that of Jesus, and yet each was filled according…

Origen · 3rd century
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