Matthew 4:8
The third time, the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain, and, showing him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor, said to him:
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7“Scripture also says,” answered Jesus, “‘You must not tempt the Lord your God.’”
9“All these I will give you, if you will fall at my feet and worship me.”
Cross References
Esther 5:11and recounted to them the greatness of his wealth, how many children he had, and all the ways in which the king had honored him, and how he had promoted him above the officials and the royal courtiers.
Matthew 16:26What good will it do a person to gain the whole world, if he forfeits his life? Or what will a person give that is of equal value with his life?
Hebrews 11:24It was faith that caused Moses, when he was grown up, to refuse the title of ‘son of a daughter of Pharaoh.’
1 John 2:15Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in them.
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 →