Luke - 4:13



13 When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

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Explanation and meaning of Luke 4:13.

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And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
And when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him for a season.
And all the temptation being ended, the devil departed from him for a time.
And the devil, having completed every temptation, departed from him for a time.
And having ended all temptation, the Devil departed from him till a convenient season.
So the Devil, having fully tried every kind of temptation on Him, left Him for a time.
And when all these tests were ended the Evil One went away from him for a time.
And when all the temptation was completed, the devil withdrew from him, until a time.
When he had tried every kind of temptation, the devil left Jesus, until another opportunity.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Departed for a season - For a time. From this it appears that our Saviour was "afterward" subjected to temptations by Satan, but no "particular" temptations are recorded after this. From John 14:30, it seems that the devil tried or tempted him in the agony in Gethsemane. Compare the notes at Hebrews 12:4. It is more than probable, also, that Satan did much to excite the Pharisees and Sadducees to endeavor to "entangle him," and the priests and rulers to oppose him; yet out of all his temptations God delivered him; and so he will make a way to escape for "all" that are tempted, and will not suffer them to be tempted above that which they are able to bear, 1-Corinthians 10:13.

And when the devil had ended all the temptation,.... Or "all his temptations", as the Syriac version reads; not only the last mentioned, but all the rest, whether inward or outward, in a visible or in an invisible manner; whether during his forty days fast, or after he was an hungered, when he had tried every way, and all sorts of temptations with him; and when he had done this, "in", or "with all his power", as the Ethiopic version reads; "when he had done his utmost", and his best; and as the Persic version adds, "and profited nothing"; could not succeed, or get any advantage over him:
he departed from him for a season; till another opportunity should offer, or till that time should come, when would be the hour and power of darkness; and by means of one of his disciples, he should bruise his heel, and bring him to an accursed death; John 14:30.

A convenient season - In the garden of Gethsemane, Luke 22:53.

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