Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
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.
- BSB Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
- 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.
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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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- 1 Jn 2:15–16Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
- Matt 4:8Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
- Ps 73:19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
- 1 Cor 15:52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
- Job 20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
- Mark 4:8–9Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
- Eph 6:12For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
- Matt 24:14This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
- 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
- Eph 2:2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
- 1 Cor 7:31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
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