Matthew 4:8
New International Version
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

New Living Translation
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.

English Standard Version
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

Berean Standard Bible
Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

Berean Literal Bible
Again the devil takes Him to a mountain exceedingly high and shows to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

King James Bible
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

New King James Version
Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

New American Standard Bible
Again, the devil took Him along to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;

NASB 1995
Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;

NASB 1977
Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;

Legacy Standard Bible
Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;

Amplified Bible
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;

Christian Standard Bible
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Again, the Devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

American Standard Version
Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Again The Devil brought him to a very high mountain, and he showed him all the Kingdoms of the world and their glory.

Contemporary English Version
Finally, the devil took Jesus up on a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms on earth and their power.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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,

English Revised Version
Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Once more the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms in the world and their glory.

Good News Translation
Then the Devil took Jesus to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in all their greatness.

International Standard Version
Once more the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, along with their splendor.

Literal Standard Version
Again the Devil takes Him to a very high mountain, and shows to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,

Majority Standard Bible
Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

New American Bible
Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence,

NET Bible
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur.

New Revised Standard Version
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor;

New Heart English Bible
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

Webster's Bible Translation
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,

Weymouth New Testament
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,

World English Bible
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

Young's Literal Translation
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,

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Context
The Temptation of Jesus
7Jesus replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ” 8Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9“All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.”…

Cross References
Numbers 23:3
"Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone," Balaam said to Balak. "Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you." So Balaam went off to a barren height,

Matthew 16:26
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 4:5
Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

John 5:20
The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.

1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.


Treasury of Scripture

Again, the devil takes him up into an exceeding high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

the devil.

Matthew 4:5
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

Luke 4:5-7
And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time…

and sheweth.

Matthew 16:26
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Esther 1:4
When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.

Esther 5:11
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

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Matthew 4
1. Jesus, fasting forty days,
3. is tempted by the devil and ministered unto by angels.
12. He dwells in Capernaum;
17. begins to preach;
18. calls Peter and Andrew,
21. James and John;
23. teaches and heals all the diseased.














(8) An exceeding high mountain.--Here, if proof were wanted, we have evidence that all that passed in the Temptation was in the region of which the spirit, and not the senses, takes cognisance. No "specular mount" (I use Milton's phrase) in the whole earth commands a survey of "all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them." St. Luke's addition "in a moment of time," in one of those flashes of intuition which concentrate into a single act of consciousness the work of years, adds, if anything could add, to the certainty of this view. Milton's well-known expansion of this part of the Temptation (Paradise Regained, Book III.), though too obviously the work of a scholar exulting in his scholarship, is yet worth studying as the first serious attempt to realise in part, at least, what must thus have been presented to our Lord's mind.

Verse 8. - Into an exceeding high mountain (εἰς ὄρος ὑψηλὸν λίαν; cf. Ezekiel 40:2; Revelation 21:10). Not in Luke. While no material mountain would have enabled our Lord to see all the kingdoms, etc., with his bodily eyes, it is probable that the physical elevation and distance of landscape would psychologically help such a vision. The Quarantana, which "commands a noble prospect" (Soein's ' Baedeker,' p. 263), may have been the spot. In the case of Ezekiel it is expressly said that his being "brought into the land of Israel, and set upon a very high mountain," was only "in the visions of God." All the kingdoms of the world (τοῦ κόσμου; but Luke, τῆς ρἰκουμένης, i.e. of the whole world as occupied by man, cf. Bishop Westcott on Hebrews 2:5). Cyrus says (Ezra 1:2), "All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord, the God of heaven, given me." And the glory of them'; "i.e. their resources, wealth, the magnificence and greatness of their cities, their fertile lands, their thronging population" (Thayer); cf. Matthew 6:29; Revelation 21:24, 26. The kingdoms themselves and their outward show. Contrast the words of the seraphim, "The whole earth is full of his glory" (Isaiah 6:3). In Luke this expression does not occur at this point, but in the tempter's words. As it there comes more abruptly, that is perhaps the more original position. St. Luke adds, "In a moment of time."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Again,
Πάλιν (Palin)
Adverb
Strong's 3825: Probably from the same as pale; anew, i.e. back, once more, or furthermore or on the other hand.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

devil
διάβολος (diabolos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1228: From diaballo; a traducer; specially, Satan.

took
παραλαμβάνει (paralambanei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3880: From para and lambano; to receive near, i.e. Associate with oneself; by analogy, to assume an office; figuratively, to learn.

Him
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

a very
λίαν (lian)
Adverb
Strong's 3029: Very; very much, exceedingly, greatly. Of uncertain affinity; much.

high
ὑψηλὸν (hypsēlon)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5308: High, lofty. From hupsos; lofty.

mountain
ὄρος (oros)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3735: A mountain, hill. Probably from an obsolete oro; a mountain: -hill, mount(-ain).

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

showed
δείκνυσιν (deiknysin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1166: A prolonged form of an obsolete primary of the same meaning; to show.

Him
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

all
πάσας (pasas)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

the
τὰς (tas)
Article - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

kingdoms
βασιλείας (basileias)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 932: From basileus; properly, royalty, i.e. rule, or a realm.

of the
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

world
κόσμου (kosmou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Feminine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

glory.
δόξαν (doxan)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1391: From the base of dokeo; glory, in a wide application.


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