Matthew 4:5

Literal Standard Version

Then the Devil takes Him to the [holy] city, and sets Him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple,

King James Version (1611)
Then the deuill taketh him vp into the holy Citie, and setteth him on a pinacle of the Temple,

King James Version
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

English Standard Version
Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple

New American Standard Bible
Then the devil took Him along into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple,

New Century Version
Then the devil led Jesus to the holy city of Jerusalem and put him on a high place of the Temple.

Amplified Bible
Then the devil took Him into the holy city [Jerusalem] and placed Him on the pinnacle (highest point) of the temple.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the deuil tooke him vp into the holy Citie, and set him on a pinacle of the temple,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the devil took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the devil *took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.

Contemporary English Version
Next, the devil took Jesus to the holy city and had him stand on the highest part of the temple.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then the Adversary took him to the holy city and set him on the highest point of the Temple.

Darby Translation
Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon the edge of the temple,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the devil led Jesus to the holy city of Jerusalem and put him on a high place at the edge of the Temple area.

George Lamsa Translation
Then the adversary took him to the holy city, and he made him to stand up on the pinnacle of the temple.

Good News Translation
Then the Devil took Jesus to Jerusalem, the Holy City, set him on the highest point of the Temple,

Lexham English Bible
Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the highest point of the temple

Literal Translation
Then the Devil takes Him to the holy city, and he set Him on the wing of the temple.

American Standard Version
Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Bible in Basic English
Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,

Hebrew Names Version
Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

International Standard Version
Then the devil took him to the Holy City[fn] and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.Nehemiah 11:1,18; Isaiah 48:2; 52:1; Matthew 27:53; Revelation 11:2;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Then the Accuser taketh him to the holy city, and caused him to stand on the pinnacle of the temple;

Murdock Translation
Then the Calumniator took him to the holy city, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then the deuyll taketh hym vp into the holy citie, and setteth hym on a pinacle of the temple,

English Revised Version
Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

World English Bible
Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then the devil taketh him with him into the holy city, and setteth him on the battlement of the temple,

Weymouth's New Testament
Then the Devil took Him to the Holy City and caused Him to stand on the roof of the Temple,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thanne the feend took hym in to the hooli citee, and settide hym on the pynacle of the temple,

Update Bible Version
Then the devil takes him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

New English Translation
Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,

New King James Version
Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple,

New Living Translation
Then the devil took him to the holy city, Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple,

New Life Bible
Then the devil took Jesus up to Jerusalem, the holy city. He had Jesus stand on the highest part of the house of God.

New Revised Standard
Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, the adversary taketh him with him, unto the holy city, - and he set him upon the pinnacle of the temple;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,

Revised Standard Version
Then the devil took him to the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then the devyll tooke hym vp into ye holy cite and set hym on a pynacle of the teple

Young's Literal Translation
Then doth the Devil take him to the [holy] city, and doth set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then the deuyll toke hym vp into the holy cite, and set hym on a pynacle of the temple,

Mace New Testament (1729)
then the devil took Jesus with him to Jerusalem, and having set him on the wing of the temple, he said to him,

THE MESSAGE
For the second test the Devil took him to the Holy City. He sat him on top of the Temple and said, "Since you are God's Son, jump." The Devil goaded him by quoting Psalm 91: "He has placed you in the care of angels. They will catch you so that you won't so much as stub your toe on a stone."

Simplified Cowboy Version
The devil snatched Jesus up and took him to the holy city and they stood at the highest point of the church.

Contextual Overview

¹Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil, ²and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He hungered. ³And the tempting [one], having come to Him, said, "If You are the Son of God—speak that these stones may become loaves." ⁴But He answering said, "It has been written: Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word coming forth from the mouth of God." ⁵Then the Devil takes Him to the [holy] city, and sets Him on the pinnacle of the temple,⁶and says to Him, "If You are the Son of God—cast Yourself down, for it has been written that, His messengers He will charge concerning you, and on hands they will bear you up, that you may not dash your foot on a stone." ⁷Jesus said to him again, "It has been written: You will not tempt the LORD your God." ⁸Again the Devil takes Him to a very high mountain, and shows to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, ⁹and says to Him, "All these I will give to You, if falling down You may worship me." ¹⁰Then Jesus says to him, "Go—Satan, for it has been written: You will worship the LORD your God, and Him only will you serve."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

taketh: Luke 4:9, John 19:11

the holy: Matthew 27:53, Nehemiah 11:1, Isaiah 48:2, Isaiah 52:1, Daniel 9:16, Revelation 11:2

on: 2 Chronicles 3:4

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:3 - General Isaiah 26:10 - in the Matthew 4:8 - the devil Revelation 12:9 - the Devil

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
And He says, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground;

Genesis 4:11
and now, cursed [are] you from the ground, which has opened her mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand;

Genesis 31:2
and Jacob sees the face of Laban, and behold, it is not with him as before.

Genesis 31:5
and says to them, "I am beholding your father's face—that it is not toward me as before, and the God of my father has been with me,

Numbers 16:15
And it is very displeasing to Moses, and he says to YHWH, "Do not turn to their present; I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I afflicted one of them."

Job 5:2
For provocation slays the perverse, || And envy puts to death the simple,

Psalms 20:3
He remembers all your presents, || And reduces your burnt-offering to ashes. Selah.

Matthew 20:15
is it not lawful to me to do what I will in my own? Is your eye evil because I am good?

Acts 13:45
and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and contradicted the things spoken by Paul—contradicting and slandering.

Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered a better sacrifice to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, yet speaks.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the devil taketh him up,.... This was done, not in a visionary way, but really and truly: Satan, by divine permission, and with the consent of Christ, which shows his great humiliation and condescension, had power over his body, to move it from place to place; in some such like manner as the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, Acts 8:39 he took him up, raised him above ground, and carried him through the air, "into, the holy city": this was Jerusalem; for Luke expressly says,

he brought him to Jerusalem, Luke 4:9 called so, because of the presence, worship, and service of God, which had been in it, though then in a great measure gone; and according to the common notions of the Jews, who say b Jerusalem was more holy than any other cities in the land, and that because of the Shekinah. The inscription on one side of their shekels was ירושלם עיר הקדש, "Jerusalem, the holy city" c. Satan frequents all sorts of places; men are no where free from his temptations; Christ himself was not in the holy city, no nor in the holy temple; hither also he had him,

and setteth him upon a pinnacle, or "wing of the temple". In this place d the Jews set James, the brother of Christ, and from it cast him down headlong: this was the ακρον "the summit", or "top" of it; and intends either the roof encompassed with battlements, to keep persons from falling off; or the top of the porch before the temple, which was 120 cubits high; or the top of the royal gallery, built by Herod, which was of such an height, that if a man looked down from it, he soon became dizzy e. The view Satan had in setting him here appears in the next verse.

b Bemidbar Rabba, fol. 183. 4. & Maimon. Hilch. Beth. Habechirah, c. 7. sect. 14. & 6. 16. c Waserus de Antiq. Numm. Heb. l. 2. c. 5. d Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 23. e Joseph. Antiq. Jud. l. 15. c. 14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then the devil taketh him up - This does not mean that he bore him through the air; or that he compelled him to go against his will, or that he performed a miracle in any way to place him there. There is no evidence that Satan had power to do any of these things, and the word translated taketh him Up does not imply any such thing. It means to conduct one; to lead one; to attend or accompany one; or to induce one to go. It is used in the following places in the same sense: Numbers 23:14; “And he (Balak) brought him (Balaam) into the field of Zophim,” etc. That is, he led him, or induced him to go there. Matthew 17:1; “and after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James,” etc.; that is, led or conducted them - not by any means implying that he bore them by force. Matthew 20:17; “Jesus, going to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart,” etc. See also Matthew 26:37; Matthew 27:27; Mark 5:40. From these passages, and many more, it appears that all that is meant here is, that Satan conducted Jesus, or accompanied him; but not that this was done against the will of Jesus.

The holy city - Jerusalem, called holy because the temple was there, and because it was the place of religious solemnities.

Setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple - It is not perfectly certain to what part of the temple the sacred writer here refers. It has been supposed by some that he means the roof. But Josephus says that the roof was covered by spikes of gold, to prevent its being polluted by birds; and such a place would have been very inconvenient to stand upon. Others suppose that it was the top of the porch or entrance to the temple. But it is more than probable that the porch leading to the temple was not as high as the main building. It is more probable that he refers to that part of the sacred edifice which was called Solomon’s Porch. The temple was built on the top of Mount Moriah. The temple itself, together with the courts and porches, occupied a large space of ground. See the notes at Matthew 21:12. To secure a level spot sufficiently large, it was necessary to put up a high wall on the east. The temple was surrounded with porches or piazzas 50 feet broad and 75 feet high. The porch on the south side was, however, 67 feet broad and 150 high. From the top of this to the bottom of the valley below was more than 700 feet, and Josephus says that one could scarcely look down without dizziness. The word “pinnacle” does not quite express the force of the original. It is a word given usually to birds, and denotes wings, or anything in the form of wings, and was given to the roof of this porch because it resembled a bird dropping its wings. It was on this place, doubtless, that Christ was placed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 4:5. Pinnacle of the temple — It is very likely that this was what was called the στοα βασιλικη, the king's gallery; which, as Josephus says, "deserves to be mentioned among the most magnificent things under the sun: for upon a stupendous depth of a valley, scarcely to be fathomed by the eye of him that stands above, Herod erected a gallery of a vast height, from the top of which if any looked down, he would grow dizzy, his eyes not being able to reach so vast a depth." - Ant. l. xv. c. 14. See Dr. Lightfoot on this place.