No sooner does the Holy Spirit descend on Jesus, empowering the incarnate Son of God for public ministry, than he leads Jesus into the wilderness for an extended time of temptation. While Matthew and Luke say the Spirit leads Jesus into the wilderness,   Mark uses a more emphatic verb: ekballo, which means to drive out, cast out, expel, or compel one to depart. The verb may imply violence, but it also may be used to denote drawing out, extracting, or leading one away with an irresistible force. 

Likely, this is the sense in which Jesus is led into the wilderness. It is Jesus’ first act of submission to the will of the Father after the Spirit’s descent. And there is no doubt the Spirit accompanies Jesus on this otherwise solitary mission.