Luke 4:5

Weymouth New Testament

The Devil next led Him up and caused Him to see at a glance all the kingdoms of the world.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So he took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

King James Version (1611)
And the deuil taking him vp into an high mountaine, shewed vnto him all the kingdomes of the world in a moment of time.

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.

English Standard Version
And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

New American Standard Bible
And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

New Century Version
Then the devil took Jesus and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in an instant.

Amplified Bible
Then he led Jesus up [to a high mountain] and displayed before Him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth [and their magnificence] in the twinkling of an eye.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

Contemporary English Version
Then the devil led Jesus up to a high place and quickly showed him all the nations on earth.

Complete Jewish Bible
The Adversary took him up, showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world,

Darby Translation
And [the devil], leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the devil took Jesus and in a moment of time showed him all the kingdoms of the world.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the deuill tooke him vp into an high mountaine, and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world, in the twinkeling of an eye.

George Lamsa Translation
Then Satan took him up to a high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the earth in a short time.

Good News Translation
Then the Devil took him up and showed him in a second all the kingdoms of the world.

Lexham English Bible
And he led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Literal Translation
And leading Him up into a high mountain, the Devil showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

American Standard Version
And he led him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Bible in Basic English
And he took him up and let him see all the kingdoms of the earth in a minute of time.

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

International Standard Version
The devilHe">[fn] also took him to a high placetook him up">[fn] and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in an instant.

Etheridge Translation
And Satana carried him up into a high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the earth in a little time.

Murdock Translation
And Satan conducted him to a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the land, in a little time.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the deuyll toke hym into an hye mountayne, & shewed hym all the kingdomes of ye worlde in a moment of time.

English Revised Version
And he led him up, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the devil taking him up into an high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the deuel ladde hym in to an hiy hil, and schewide to hym alle the rewmes of the world in a moment of tyme;

Update Bible Version
And he led him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the devil taking him up upon a high mountain, showed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

New English Translation
Then the devil led him up to a high place and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world.

New King James Version
Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him [fn] all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

New Living Translation
Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

New Life Bible
The devil took Jesus up on a high mountain. He had Jesus look at all the nations of the world at one time.

New Revised Standard
Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, leading him up, he shewed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth, in a moment of time.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Revised Standard Version
And the devil took him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And ye devyll toke him vp into an hye moutayne and shewed him all the kyngdoms of the worlde eve in ye twincklinge of an eye.

Young's Literal Translation
And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye deuell toke him vp into an hye moutayne, and shewed him all the kyngdomes of ye whole worlde in ye twinckelinge of an eye,

Mace New Testament (1729)
then the devil took him to the top of a high mountain, and in an instant represented to him all the kingdoms of the world.

THE MESSAGE
For the second test he led him up and spread out all the kingdoms of the earth on display at once. Then the Devil said, "They're yours in all their splendor to serve your pleasure. I'm in charge of them all and can turn them over to whomever I wish. Worship me and they're yours, the whole works."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Then the devil took him up to a place where they could see all the countries in the world and said,

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led about by the Spirit in the Desert for forty days, ² tempted all the while by the Devil. During those days He ate nothing, and at the close of them He suffered from hunger. ³ Then the Devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, tell this stone to become bread." ⁴ "It is written," replied Jesus, "`It is not on bread alone that a man shall live.'" <sup>5</sup> The Devil next led Him up and caused Him to see at a glance all the kingdoms of the world. <sup>6</sup> And the Devil said to Him, "To you will I give all this authority and this splendour; for it has been handed over to me, and on whomsoever I will I bestow it. <sup>7</sup> If therefore you do homage to me, it shall all be yours.' <sup>8</sup> Jesus answered him, "It is written, `To the Lord thy God thou shalt do homage, and to Him alone shalt thou render worship.'" ⁹ Then he brought Him to Jerusalem and caused Him to stand on the roof of the Temple, and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down from here; for it is written, ¹⁰ `He will give orders to His angels concerning thee, to guard thee safely;'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

taking: Mark 4:8, Mark 4:9, 1 Corinthians 7:31, Ephesians 2:2, Ephesians 6:12, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 2:16

in: Job 20:5, Psalms 73:19, 1 Corinthians 15:52, 2 Corinthians 4:17

Reciprocal: Daniel 2:31 - and the Matthew 4:8 - the devil Luke 9:25 - what

Cross-References

Matthew 20:15
Have I not a right to do what I choose with my own property? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

Acts 13:45
Seeing the crowds, the Jews, filled with angry jealousy, opposed Paul's statements and abused him.

Hebrews 11:4
Through faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain did, and through this faith he obtained testimony that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it, though he is dead, he still speaks.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the devil taking him up into an high mountain,.... Somewhere near Jerusalem, but what mountain is not certain. The Evangelist Luke makes this to be the second temptation, which, with Matthew, is the third and last; and whose order seems to be more proper and natural than this, and to be the true and genuine one, which Luke neglects, though he does not contradict it: he relates matters of fact, without attending to the strict order of them; whereas Matthew strictly regards it, observing, that after the first temptation, "then the devil taketh him, c." and that being finished, says, "again the devil taketh him, c." and upon those words, "get thee hence", with what follows, remarks, that then the devil leaveth him: all which show, that his order is the most accurate, and to be followed. But to go on with the account the devil having taken him from the pinnacle of the temple, and carried him to some high mountain, as Lebanon, or Pisgah, or some other near Jerusalem, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world not of the Roman empire only, though that consisted of many kingdoms, and is called the whole world, Luke 2:1 where the same word is used, as here; but of the whole universe, every kingdom that was under the heavens; which he represented to Christ, not in a map, since the glory of them could not be described in that way: for

he showed him all the glory of them, as Matthew adds; and for this a mountain was no more a proper place, than any other; nor was, it any real object he presented to his bodily sight, or any real prospect he gave him of the kingdoms of the world, which are not to be seen from any one place, no not one of them, not even from the highest mountain in the world, and still less to be seen together at once in a moment: but this was a mere phantasm, a deception of the sight, with which he endeavoured to impose on Christ, but could not; nor did Christ; who is the maker of the world, and the governor among the nations, need any representation of the kingdoms of the world from him,

Luke 2:1- : and this he did in a moment of time; in the twinkling of an eye, not by succession, and in process of time, as one kingdom after another, but all at once, and in an instant: what a moment of time is, Luke 2:1- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On the temptation of Jesus, see the notes at Matthew 4:1-11.

Luke 4:2

Being forty days tempted - That is, through forty days he was “tried” in various ways by the devil. The temptations, however, which are recorded by Matthew and Luke did not take place until the forty days were finished. See Matthew 4:2-3.

He did eat nothing - He was sustained by the power of God during this season of extraordinary fasting.

Luke 4:13

Departed for a season - For a time. From this it appears that our Saviour was “afterward” subjected to temptations by Satan, but no “particular” temptations are recorded after this. From John 14:30, it seems that the devil tried or tempted him in the agony in Gethsemane. Compare the notes at Hebrews 12:4. It is more than probable, also, that Satan did much to excite the Pharisees and Sadducees to endeavor to “entangle him,” and the priests and rulers to oppose him; yet out of all his temptations God delivered him; and so he will make a way to escape for “all” that are tempted, and will not suffer them to be tempted above that which they are able to bear, 1 Corinthians 10:13.

Luke 4:14

In the power of the Spirit - By the “influence” or direction of the Spirit.

A fame - A report. See Matthew 4:24.