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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Mark 1:12

And immediately the Spirit driueth him into the wildernesse.

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
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.
Good News Translation
At once the Spirit made him go into the desert,
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 And it came to passe in those daies, that Iesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of Iohn in Iordane. 10 And straightway comming vp out of the water, hee saw the heauens opened, and the Spirit like a doue descending vpon him. 11 And there came a voice from heauen, saying, Thou art my beloued Sonne, in whom I am well pleased. 12 And immediately the Spirit driueth him into the wildernesse. 13 And he was there in the wildernesse fourtie daies tempted of Satan, and was with the wildbeasts, and the Angels ministred vnto 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
And God called the drie land, Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called hee, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let the Earth bring foorth grasse, the herbe yeelding seed, and the fruit tree, yeelding fruit after his kinde, whose seed is in it selfe, vpon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the liuing creature after his kinde, cattell, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kinde: and it was so.
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let vs make man in our Image, after our likenesse: and let them haue dominion ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the aire, and ouer the cattell, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth.
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth bringeth foorth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sowen in it, to spring foorth: so the Lord God will cause righteousnes and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Mark 4:28
For the earth bringeth foorth fruite of herselfe, first the blade, then the eare, after that the full corne in the eare.
Luke 6:44
For euery tree is knowen by his owne fruit: for of thornes men doe not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
2 Corinthians 9:10
Now he that ministreth seede to the sower, both minister bread for your foode, and multiply your seede sowen, and encrease the fruites of your righteousnesse)
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.

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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