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Good News Translation

Mark 1:12

At once the Spirit made him go into the desert,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fasting;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Wilderness;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   Inspiration;   Miracles;   Repentance;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Palestine;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Demon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mark, the Gospel of;   Temptation of Jesus;   Wilderness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jesus Christ;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2);   Communion (2);   Consciousness;   Devotion;   Discipline (2);   Enthusiasm;   Goodness;   Holy Spirit (2);   Immanence ;   Judaea;   Loneliness;   Manuscripts;   Personality;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Self-Control;   Silence;   Solitude;   Struggles of Soul;   Temptation;   Temptation ;   Trinity (2);   Wilderness (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Holy Spirit;   Tempt;   Temptation of Christ;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Christianity in Its Relation to Judaism;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Immediately the Spirit drove him into the wilderness.
King James Version (1611)
And immediately the Spirit driueth him into the wildernesse.
King James Version
And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
English Standard Version
The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
New American Standard Bible
And immediately the Spirit brought Him out into the wilderness.
New Century Version
Then the Spirit sent Jesus into the desert.
Amplified Bible
Immediately the [Holy] Spirit forced Him out into the wilderness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Immediately the Spirit impelled Him to go out into the wilderness.
Legacy Standard Bible
And immediately the Spirit *drove Him to go out into the wilderness.
Berean Standard Bible
At once the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness,
Contemporary English Version
Right away God's Spirit made Jesus go into the desert.
Complete Jewish Bible
Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness,
Darby Translation
And immediately the Spirit drives him out into the wilderness.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Spirit sent Jesus into the desert alone.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And immediatly the Spirite driueth him into the wildernesse.
George Lamsa Translation
And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
Lexham English Bible
And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
Literal Translation
And the Spirit at once drove Him out into the wilderness.
American Standard Version
And straightway the Spirit driveth him forth into the wilderness.
Bible in Basic English
And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land.
Hebrew Names Version
Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
International Standard Version
At once the Spirit drove him into the wilderness.Matthew 4:1; Luke 4:1;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And immediately the Spirit led him forth into the desert.
Murdock Translation
And directly the Spirit carried him into the wilderness:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And immediatly the spirite driueth hym into wyldernesse.
English Revised Version
And straightway the Spirit driveth him forth into the wilderness.
World English Bible
Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And immediately the Spirit leadeth him out into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days,
Weymouth's New Testament
At once the Spirit impelled Him to go out into the Desert,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And anoon the Spirit puttide hym forth in to deseert.
Update Bible Version
And right away the Spirit drives him forth into the wilderness.
Webster's Bible Translation
And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
New English Translation
The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.
New King James Version
Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13">[xr] Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness.
New Living Translation
The Spirit then compelled Jesus to go into the wilderness,
New Life Bible
At once the Holy Spirit sent Jesus to a desert.
New Revised Standard
And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, straightway, the Spirit urgeth him forth into the wilderness;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the desert.
Revised Standard Version
The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And immediatly the sprete drave him into wildernes:
Young's Literal Translation
And immediately doth the Spirit put him forth to the wilderness,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And immediatly the sprete droue him in to the wyldernes:
Mace New Testament (1729)
presently after the spirit convey'd him into the desart.
THE MESSAGE
At once, this same Spirit pushed Jesus out into the wild. For forty wilderness days and nights he was tested by Satan. Wild animals were his companions, and angels took care of him.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Then the Spirit of God led Jesus out into the wilds and the brush where there were no fences and things were hard to come by.

Contextual Overview

9 Not long afterward Jesus came from Nazareth in the province of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 As soon as Jesus came up out of the water, he saw heaven opening and the Spirit coming down on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven, "You are my own dear Son. I am pleased with you." 12 At once the Spirit made him go into the desert, 13 where he stayed forty days, being tempted by Satan. Wild animals were there also, but angels came and helped him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Spirit: Matthew 4:1-11, Luke 4:1-4

driveth: Or, "sendeth him forth," וךגבככוי [Strong's G1544], בץפןם. The expression does not necessarily imply any violence; but seems to intimate the energy of that impulse on our Lord, by which he was inwardly constrained to retire from society.

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
He named the land "Earth," and the water which had come together he named "Sea." And God was pleased with what he saw.
Genesis 1:11
Then he commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit"—and it was done.
Genesis 1:24
Then God commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life: domestic and wild, large and small"—and it was done.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small."
Isaiah 61:11
As surely as seeds sprout and grow, The Sovereign Lord will save his people, And all the nations will praise him.
Mark 4:28
The soil itself makes the plants grow and bear fruit; first the tender stalk appears, then the head, and finally the head full of grain.
Luke 6:44
Every tree is known by the fruit it bears; you do not pick figs from thorn bushes or gather grapes from bramble bushes.
2 Corinthians 9:10
And God, who supplies seed for the sower and bread to eat, will also supply you with all the seed you need and will make it grow and produce a rich harvest from your generosity.
Galatians 6:7
Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And immediately,.... As soon as he was baptized, and this testimony had been given of his divine sonship, the very selfsame day,

the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness: into a more remote and desolate part of it; for it was in the wilderness John was baptizing and preaching, when Christ came to him, and had the ordinance of baptism administered by him; and it was the same Spirit that descended on him at his baptism, which remained with him; by whose impulse he was moved, though not against his will, to go into, this desert and forlorn place. For this was not the evil spirit Satan, by whom he was tempted; for Matthew expressly says, that he was "led up of the Spirit--to be tempted by the devil", Matthew 4:1: where the devil that tempted him, is manifestly distinguished from the Spirit by whom he was led, and the same Spirit is meant here, as there. Moreover, in one of Beza's copies, and in his most ancient one, and in one of Stephens's, it is read, "the Holy Spirit driveth him";

Matthew 4:1- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Here Mark relates concisely what Matthew has recorded more at length in Mark 4:0.

The Spirit driveth - The word “driveth” does not mean that he was compelled forcibly against his will to go there, but that he was inclined to go there by the Spirit, or was led there. The Spirit of God, for important purposes, caused him to go. Compare Matthew 9:25, where the same word is used in the original: “And when they were all put forth” in Greek, “all driven out.”

And was with the wild beasts - This is added to show the desolation and danger of his dwelling there. In this place, surrounded by such dangers, the temptations offered by Satan were the stronger. Amid want and perils, Satan might suppose that he would be more easily seduced from God. But he trusted in his Father, and was alike delivered from dangers, from the wild beasts, and from the power of temptation, thus teaching us what to do in the day of danger and trial.

And the angels ministered unto him - From Luke 4:2 we learn that in those days he did eat nothing. When Mark says, therefore, that the angels ministered to him, it means after the days of temptation had expired, as is said by Matthew 4:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Mark 1:12. The Spirit driveth him — εκβαλλει, putteth him forth. St. Matthew says, Matthew 4:1, ανηχθη, was brought up. See this important subject of our Lord's temptation explained at large, Matthew 4:1-11.


 
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