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Matthew 4:8
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Then the devil led Jesus to the top of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and all the wonderful things in them.
The devyll toke hym vp agayne and ledde hym in to an excedynge hye mountayne and shewed hym all the kyngdomes of ye worlde and all ye glorie of them
Once more the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
Again, the devil took Him along to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;
Then the devil led Jesus to the top of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and all their splendor.
Again, the devil takes him to an exceeding high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Again, the devil taketh him up upon an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,
Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory [splendor, magnificence, and excellence] of them;
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
Again the devil taketh him with him to an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, And saith to him,
Then the Devil took Him to the top of an exceedingly lofty mountain, from which he caused Him to see all the Kingdoms of the world and their splendour,
Eftsoone the feend took hym in to a ful hiy hil, and schewide to hym alle the rewmes of the world, and the ioye of hem;
Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Finally, the devil took Jesus up on a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms on earth and their power.
Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;
Once more, the Adversary took him up to the summit of a very high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in all their glory,
Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory,
Again the Accuser took him to a mountain which is exceeding high, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;
Again the Calumniator took him to a mountain that was very high, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;
Againe the Deuill taketh him vp into an exceeding high mountaine, and sheweth him all the kingdomes of the world, and the glory of them:
Next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Again the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain. He had Jesus look at all the nations of the world to see how great they were.
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor;
Againe the deuil tooke him vp into an exceeding hie mountaine, and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world, and the glory of them,
Again the adversary took him to a very high mountain, and he showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Again, the adversary taketh him with him, into an exceeding high mountain, - and pointeth out to him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;
Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;
Agayne, the deuyll taketh hym vp, into an exceadyng hye mountayne, and sheweth hym all the kyngdomes of the worlde, and the glorie of them,
Then the Devil took Jesus to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in all their greatness.
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,
Again the Devil takes Him to a very high mountain, and shows to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Again doth the Devil take him to a very high mount, and doth shew to him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them,
Agayne, the deuyll toke hym vp and led hym into an excedynge hye mountayne, and shewed hym all the kyngdomes of the worlde, and all the glorie of them,
Again, the devil accompanyed him up a very high mountain, and representing to him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them: all these things,
For the third test, the Devil took him to the peak of a huge mountain. He gestured expansively, pointing out all the earth's kingdoms, how glorious they all were. Then he said, "They're yours—lock, stock, and barrel. Just go down on your knees and worship me, and they're yours."
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur.
Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
The devil whisked him off again and took him to a tall mountain where they could see all of the territories.
Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;
Again, the devil *took Him to a very high mountain and *showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the devil: Matthew 4:5, Luke 4:5-7
and showeth: Matthew 16:26, Esther 1:4, Esther 5:11, Psalms 49:16, Psalms 49:17, Daniel 4:30, Hebrews 11:24-26, 1 Peter 1:24, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 2:16, Revelation 11:15
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:1 - glory Numbers 22:17 - I will promote Numbers 22:37 - General Daniel 2:31 - and the Mark 8:36 - what Romans 10:18 - unto the ends 2 Corinthians 4:4 - the god Revelation 12:9 - the Devil
Cross-References
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord .
And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord .
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain,.... That is, he took him off from the pinnacle of the temple, and carried him through the air, to one of the mountains which were round about Jerusalem; or to some very high mountain at a greater distance; but what mountain is not certain; nor can it be known; nor is it of any moment; it has been said g to be Mount Lebanon: here he
sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and glory of them. By "all the kingdoms of the world" are meant, not only the Roman empire, as Dr. Lightfoot thinks, though that was, to he sure, the greatest in the world at that time; but all the kingdoms in the whole world, which subsisted in any form, whether within, or independent of the Roman empire; or whether greater or lesser: and by "the glory of them", is meant, the riches, pomp, power, and grandeur of them. Now the view which Satan gave Christ of all this, was not by a representation of them in a picture, or in a map, or in any geographical tables, as h some have thought; since to do this there was no need to take him up into a mountain, and that an exceeding high one; for this might have been done in a valley, as well as in a mountain: and yet it could not be a true and real sight of these things he gave him; for there is no mountain in the world, from whence can be beheld anyone kingdom, much less all the kingdoms of the world; and still less the riches, glory, pomp, and power of them: but this was a fictitious, delusive representation, which Satan was permitted to make; to cover which, and that it might be thought to be real, he took Christ into an high mountain; where he proposed an object externally to his sight, and internally to his imagination, which represented, in appearance, the whole world, and all its glory. Xiphilinus i reports of Severus, that he dreamed, he was had by a certain person, to a place where he could look all around him, and from thence he beheld πασαν μεν την γην, πασαν δε
την θαλασσαν "all the earth, and also all the sea"; which was all in imagination. Satan thought to have imposed on Christ this way, but failed in his attempt. Luke says, this was done
in a moment of time, in the twinkling of an eye; as these two phrases are joined together, 1 Corinthians 15:52 or "in a point of time". The word στιγμη, used by Luke 4:5 sometimes signifies a mathematical point, which Zeno says k is the end of the line, and the least mark; to which the allusion may be here, and designs the smallest part of time that can be conceived of. Antoninus the emperor uses the word, as here, for a point of time; and says l, that the time of human life, and the whole present time, is but στιγμη a point. Would you know what a moment, or point of time is, according to the calculation of the Jewish doctors, take the account as follows; though in it they differ: a moment, say they m, is the fifty six thousandth, elsewhere n, the fifty eight thousandth, and in another place o, the fifty three thousandth and eight hundredth and forty eighth, or, according to another account p, eighty eighth part of an hour. If this could be thought to be a true and exact account of a moment, or point of time, it was a very short space of time indeed, in which the devil showed to Christ the kingdoms of this world, and their glory; but this is not more surprising than his vanity, pride, and impudence, in the following verse.
g Vid. Fabricii Bibliograph. Antiq. c. 5. p. 137. h Vid. Fabricium, ibid. & Grotium in loc. i Apud Fabricium, ib. k Vid. Laertium in Vit. Zenou. l De seipso, l. 2. c. 17. & l. 6. c. 36. m T. Hieros. Beracot, fol. 2. 4. n T. Bab Beracot. fol. 7. 1. o Avoda Zara, fol. 4. 1. p T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 7. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
An exceeding high mountain - It is not known what mountain this was. It was probably some elevated place in the vicinity of Jerusalem, from the top of which could be seen no small part of the land of Palestine. The Abbe Mariti speaks of a mountain on which he was, which answers to the description here. “This part of the mountain,” says he, “overlooks the mountains of Arabia, the country of Gilead, the country of the Amorites, the plains of Moab, the plains of Jericho, the River Jordan, and the whole extent of the Dead Sea.” So Moses, before he died, went up into Mount Nebo, and from it God showed him “all the land of Gilead unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, and the city of palm-trees, unto Zoar,” Deuteronomy 34:1-3. This shows that there were mountains from which no small part of the land of Canaan could be seen; and we need not suppose that there was any miracle when they were shown to the Saviour.
All the kingdoms of the world - It is not probable that anything more is intended here than the kingdoms of Palestine, or of the land of Canaan, and those in the immediate vicinity. Judea was divided into three parts, and those parts were called kingdoms; and the sons of Herod, who presided over them, were called kings. The term “world” is often used in this limited sense to denote a part or a large part of the world, particularly the land of Canaan. See Romans 4:13, where it means the land of Judah; also Luke 2:1, and the note on the place.
The glory of them - The riches, splendor, towns, cities, mountains, etc., of this beautiful land,
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 4:8. An exceeding high mountain, and showeth him — If the words, all the kingdoms of the world, be taken in a literal sense, then this must have been a visionary representation, as the highest mountain on the face of the globe could not suffice to make evident even one hemisphere of the earth, and the other must of necessity be in darkness.
But if we take the world to mean only the land of Judea, and some of the surrounding nations, as it appears sometimes to signify, (see on Luke 2:1), then the mountain described by the Abbe Mariti (Travels through Cyprus, c.) could have afforded the prospect in question. Speaking of it, he says, "Here we enjoyed the most beautiful prospect imaginable. This part of the mountain overlooks the mountains of Arabia, the country of Gilead, the country of the Amorites, the plains of Moab, the plains of Jericho, the river Jordan, and the whole extent of the Dead Sea. It was here that the devil said to the Son of God, All these kingdoms will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me." Probably St. Matthew, in the Hebrew original, wrote הארץ haarets, which signifies the world, the earth, and often the land of Judea only. What renders this more probable is, that at this time Judea was divided into several kingdoms, or governments under the three sons of Herod the Great, viz. Archelaus, Antipas, and Philip which are not only called ethnarchs and tetrarchs in the Gospels, but also βασιλεις, kings, and are said βασιλευειν, to reign, as Rosenmuller has properly remarked. See Matthew 2:22; Matthew 14:9.
