Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
Parallel translations
- WEB The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
- KJV And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
- NKJV Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
- NASB And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
- NLT Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
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Quick answer
The devil shows Jesus all the world's kingdoms in an instant. He offers a shortcut to glory without the cross.
Overview
In a visionary moment Satan displays the kingdoms of the world, tempting Jesus to seize universal authority by an easier path. The offer bypasses the suffering and obedience through which the Father had appointed Jesus to win the nations. The temptation is to gain the crown without the cross.
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Cross-references · 11
- 1 Jn 2:15–16Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- Matt 4:8Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
- Ps 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
- 1 Cor 15:52in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
- Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
- Mark 4:8–9Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprouted, grew up, and produced a crop—one bearing thirtyfold, another sixtyfold, and another a hundredfold.”
- Eph 6:12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
- Matt 24:14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
- 2 Cor 4:17For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
- Eph 2:2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
- 1 Cor 7:31and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.
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