Matthew 4:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Matthew 4:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 4:9
And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
Revelation 11:2
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Matthew 27:53
And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Isaiah 48:2
For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
Nehemiah 11:18
All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

We have here the story of a famous duel, fought hand to hand, between Michael and the dragon, the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, nay, the serpent himself; in which the seed of the woman suffers, being tempted, and so has his heel bruised; but the serpent is quite baffled in his temptations, and so has his head broken; and our Lord Jesus comes off a Conqueror, and so secures not onl…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Then the devil taketh him up--rather, “conducteth Him.” into the holy city--so called (as in Is 48:2; Ne 11:1) from its being “the city of the Great King,” the seat of the temple, the metropolis of all Jewish worship. and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple--rather, “the pinnacle”--a certain well-known projection. Whether this refers to the highest summit of the temple, which bristled with…