Matthew 4:5
Then the devil took him into the holy city and set him on the highest point of the temple building,
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In The King James Version
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 3:4The length of the portico at the front of the house was twenty cubits, matching the building's width. Its height was also twenty cubits, and Solomon overlaid its interior with pure gold.
Nehemiah 11:18All the Levites in the holy city numbered 284.
Isaiah 52:1Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; 1 put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, holy city; 1 for never again will the uncircumcised or the unclean enter you. 1
Daniel 9:24Seventy sevens are decreed for your people and your holy city to end the guilt and put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring everlasting righteousness, to carry out the vision and the prophecy, and to consecrate the most holy place.
Luke 4:9Then the devil led Jesus to Jerusalem and put him on the very highest point of the temple building, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here.
Revelation 11:2But do not measure the courtyard outside the temple, for it has been given over to the Gentiles. They will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
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 →