Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
7Jesus said to him: It is again written, You shall not put the Lord your God to the proof.
9and said to him: All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me.
Cross References
Matthew 16:26For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, but lose his own life? Or, what will a man give as the ransom of his life?
Hebrews 11:24By faith Moses, when he became a man, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
1 John 2:15Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:2-12
The Temptation of Christ. 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a… Read the whole commentary →