Luke 4:1

New Century Version

Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. The Spirit led Jesus into the desert

Cross References

1 Kings 18:12

The Spirit of the Lord may carry you to some other place after I leave. If I go tell King Ahab you are here, and he comes and doesn’t find you, he will kill me! I have followed the Lord since I was a boy.

1 Kings 19:4

Then Elijah walked for a whole day into the desert. He sat down under a bush and asked to die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he prayed. “Let me die. I am no better than my ancestors.”

Isaiah 61:1

The Lord God has put his Spirit in me, because the Lord has appointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort those whose hearts are broken, to tell the captives they are free, and to tell the prisoners they are released.

Ezekiel 3:14

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I was unhappy and angry, and I felt the great power of the Lord.

Matthew 3:16

As soon as Jesus was baptized, he came up out of the water. Then heaven opened, and he saw God’s Spirit coming down on him like a dove.

Luke 2:27

The Spirit led Simeon to the Temple. When Mary and Joseph brought the baby Jesus to the Temple to do what the law said they must do,

Luke 3:3

He went all over the area around the Jordan River preaching a baptism of changed hearts and lives for the forgiveness of sins.

Luke 3:38

Kenan was the son of Enosh. Enosh was the son of Seth. Seth was the son of Adam. Adam was the son of God.

Luke 4:14

Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Holy Spirit, and stories about him spread all through the area.

Luke 4:18

“The Lord has put his Spirit in me, because he appointed me to tell the Good News to the poor. He has sent me to tell the captives they are free and to tell the blind that they can see again. God sent me to free those who have been treated unfairly

John 1:32

Then John said, “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven in the form of a dove and rest on him. Until then I did not know who the Christ was. But the God who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘You will see the Spirit come down and rest on a man; he is the One who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’

John 3:34

The One whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God gives him the Spirit fully.

Acts 1:2

until the day he was taken up into heaven. Before this, with the help of the Holy Spirit, Jesus told the apostles he had chosen what they should do.

Acts 10:38

You know about Jesus from Nazareth, that God gave him the Holy Spirit and power. You know how Jesus went everywhere doing good and healing those who were ruled by the devil, because God was with him.

Acts 8:39

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took Philip away; the officer never saw him again. And the officer continued on his way home, full of joy.