Luke 4:5

The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

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In The King James Version

And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

In Context

4Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”

6The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I want.

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Cross References

Psalms 73:19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

Matthew 24:14This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

1 Corinthians 7:31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

2 Corinthians 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

Ephesians 6:12For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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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