Luke 4:5

And [the devil], leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.

Darby Translation

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 unto him saying, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

6And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power, and their glory; for it is given up to me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.

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Cross References

Psalms 73:19How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.

Matthew 24:14And these glad tidings of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole habitable earth, for a witness to all the nations, and then shall come the end.

1 Corinthians 7:31and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes.

2 Corinthians 4:17For our momentary [and] light affliction works for us in surpassing measure an eternal weight of glory;

Ephesians 6:12because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual [power] of wickedness in the heavenlies.

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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