Luke 4:5
And taking him up, he showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Noyes Bible
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In Context
4And Jesus answered him, It is written, “Not on bread alone shall man live.”
Cross References
Psalms 73:19How are they brought to desolation in a moment, And utterly consumed with sudden destruction!
Matthew 24:14And these glad tidings of the kingdom will be published throughout the whole world for a testimony to all the nations; and then will come the end.
1 Corinthians 7:31and they that use this world as not abusing it; for the outward condition of this world is passing away;
2 Corinthians 4:17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory;
Ephesians 6:12for our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of evil in the heavenly regions.
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 →