“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.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!