Matthew 4:8
Then the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain, and showed all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them,
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
7"It is written again," answered Jesus, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."
9and said to him, "All these will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me."
Cross References
Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Hebrews 11:24By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
1 John 2:15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love 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 →