Luke 4:5

And having brought him onto a high mountain, the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

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In The King James Version

And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

In Context

4And Jesus answered, saying to him, It is written, Man will not live on bread alone, but on every saying of God.

6And the devil said to him, I will give to thee all this authority, and the glory of them, because it has been delivered to me, and to whomever I want I give it.

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Cross References

Psalms 73:19How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

Matthew 24:14And this good-news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

1 Corinthians 7:31and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.

2 Corinthians 4:17For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,

Ephesians 6:12Because our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principal offices, against the positions of authority, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual things of wickedness in the he

Matthew Henry on Luke 4:2-14

The Temptation in the Wilderness. 1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. 3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. 4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. 5 And the devil, taking him up… Read the whole commentary →

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