Luke 4:6

Then he said to Jesus, “I will give you the authority to rule all these areas and will make you famous. I can do this because God has permitted me to control these areas, and I can allow anyone I desire to rule them!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

In Context

5Then the devil took him on top of a high mountain and showed him in an instant all the nations in the world.

7So if you worship me, I will let you rule them all!”

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Cross References

Esther 5:11and he boasted to them about being very rich, and about having many children. He also boasted that the king had greatly honored him, and that the king had ◄promoted him/given him the second-most important job in the empire►, so that all the other officials had to respect him.

Isaiah 23:9It was the Commander of the armies of angels who did it; he did it in order to cause you people in Tyre not to be proud any more, to humiliate you men who are honored all over the world.

John 12:31Now is the time for God to judge the people in [MTY] the world. Now is the time when I will destroy the power of Satan, the one who rules this world.

2 Corinthians 11:14I am not surprised that they act like that, because Satan himself causes people to think that he has come as a shining messenger from God.

1 Peter 1:24We know that this is true because, as the prophet Isaiah wrote, All people will die [SIM], like grass dies. And all the greatness/honor that people have will not last forever, like the flowers [SIM] that grow up in the grass do not last long. The grass withers and the flowers die,

Revelation 12:9The huge dragon was thrown { Michael and his angels threw the huge dragon} out of heaven. The dragon is the ancient serpent, the one who is called the Devil and Satan. He is the one who deceives people all over the earth. He was thrown down to the earth, along with all his angels.

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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