Earlier, Moses urged the Israelites: “After Jehovah your God you should walk, and him you should fear, and his commandments you should keep, and to his voice you should listen, and him you should serve, and to him you should cling. ”
( यशया ११: २, ३) या भविष्यवाणीनुसार, देवाच्या आत्म्याने येशूला त्याच्या स्वर्गीय पित्याचे भय बाळगण्यास प्रवृत्त केले.