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Matthew 4:5

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

KJV

τότε παραλαμβάνει αὐτὸν ὁ διάβολος εἰς τὴν ἁγίαν πόλιν, καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸ πτερύγιον τοῦ ἱεροῦ,

Greek NT

Tunc assumpsit eum diabolus in sanctam civitatem, et statuit eum super pinnaculum templi,

Vulgate

Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

ASV

Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διάβολος
diabolos
adjective · 37×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
παραλαμβάνω
paralambano
verb · 49×
πτερύγιον
pterugion
noun · 2×
πόλις
polis
noun · 164×
τότε
tote
adverb · 157×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἱερόν
ieron
noun · 72×
ἵστημι
istemi
verb · 152×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: ἔστησεν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἔστησεν | RP: ἵστησιν
  • ἔστησεν — SBLGNT
  • ἔστησεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἵστησιν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§394Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning", who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father.273 "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil."274 In its consequences the gravest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God.
§2849Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter, both at the outset of his public mission and in the ultimate struggle of his agony.159 In this petition to our heavenly Father, Christ unites us to his battle and his agony. He urges us to vigilance of the heart in communion with his own. Vigilance is "cu…
2. What then is it which he is bringing about? For that it belongs not to John to have doubt hereupon, no nor to any ordinary person, nor even to one extremely foolish and frenzied; so much is evident from what we have said. And now we have only to add the solution. For what intent then did he send to ask? John's disciples were starting aside from Jesus, and this surely any one…

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 6:3 — And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 52:1 — Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
  • 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:
  • 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:
  • Matt 27:53 — And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
  • Neh 11:1 — And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.
  • Rev 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.
  • Rev 12:9 — And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.