Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil took him up to a very high hill and showed him all the kingdoms of the world along with all their splendor.
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In Context
7Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, 'You must not test the Lord your God.'”
9He said to him, “All these things I will give you, if you fall down and worship me.”
Cross References
Esther 5:11Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his many sons, all the promotions by which the king honored him, and how he had advanced above all the officials and the servants of the king.
Daniel 4:30and he said, “Is this not the great Babylon, which I have built for my royal residence, for the glory of my majesty?”
Matthew 16:26For what does it profit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? What can a person give in exchange for his life?
Hebrews 11:24It was by faith that Moses, after he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
1 John 2:15Do not love the world nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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 →