Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil took him up, onto a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,
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In Context
7Jesus said to him, “Again, it has been written: ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”
9and said to him, “All these things I will give to you, if you will fall down and adore me.”
Cross References
Esther 5:11And he explained to them the greatness of his riches, and the influence of his sons, and how, with such glory, the king had elevated him above all his rulers and servants.
Daniel 4:30The same hour, the sentence was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven away from among men, and he ate hay like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair increased like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like those of birds.
Matthew 16:26For how does it benefit a man, if he gains the whole world, yet truly suffers damage to his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Hebrews 11:24By faith, Moses, after growing up, denied himself a place as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
1 John 2:15Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity 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 →