Matthew 4:1Bible in Basic English
Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.
Related Verses
Genesis 1:2
And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.
Genesis 1:10
And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 2:5
In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
Genesis 2:6
But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.