An exceeding high mountain. There was something of a parallel here with Moses on Mount Nebo when God showed him the country of Canaan (Deuteronomy 34:1-4), but if so it is in order to hint to Jesus that He could succeed where Moses had failed. And now, humanly speaking, Jesus on this high mountain could make the same mistake. 8:3 ” 5 Then the devil took him to … together, ( 1 We have to contend every day with the same imposture: for every believer feels it in himself and it is still more clearly seen in the whole life of the ungodly. Look you!—imperative in mood and tone (vide Mark’s graphic account). Even granted that this meant all the kingdoms of the known world, or of the Roman world, this was not physically possible. high and by "the glory of them", is meant, the riches, pomp, power, Sheweth him. A human being (Greek anthropos, a human), “does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4, quoting Deuteronomy 8:3). Therefore many think it was by some kind of representation; or that the devil shewing a part, by words set forth the rest. 3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” round about Jerusalem; or to some very high mountain at a greater This verse concludes the miracle story of Jesus cleansing a leper, the first of … ‘Again, the devil takes him to an extremely high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them.’. Matthew 4:8. See App-129. (8) An exceeding high mountain. 1 Then # Matt. καὶ ὅτι ἡ μὲν ἔχει δόξαν ἐπὶ τοῖσδε τοῖς εἴδεσιν, ἡ δὲ ἐπὶ τοῖσδε, καὶ ἄλλη ἐπʼ ἄλλοις, καὶ ἁπλῶς πάντα καταλέγει: and even Maldonatus approves it. imagination, which represented, in appearance, the whole world, Its situation can only be conjectured; the Mount of Olives, which was relatively high; others, the mountain in the wilderness (Quarantania), Nebo, Tabor. Often they failed. carried him through the air, to one of the mountains which were 2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. But in the mind’s eye anything is possible. For Jesus, being the Son of God means accepting his In vision, or in His mind’s eye, Satan takes Jesus onto ‘a very high mountain’ from which all the kingdoms of the world can be seen. Christ feared the man would be content with being well without being officially pronounced clean—physically healed, though not Again, while his senses were moved and powerfully affected by the glory of the kingdoms which was presented to them, no inward desire arose in his mind; whereas the lusts of the flesh, like wild beasts, are drawn, and hurry us along, to the objects which please us: for Christ had the same feelings with ourselves, but he had no irregular appetites. A "multitude" was probably over 1,000 people, and since the Scripture included "great", then it could have been several thousand. Judenth. Matthew 8:1 "When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him." 8.The devil taketh him to a very high mountain. But to limit this to the most extensive scene which the natural eye could take in, is to give a sense to the expression, "all the kingdoms of the world," quite violent. Luke adds, ‘in a moment of time,’ this may imply some supernatural extension of vision. Matthew 4:8. them. moment, say they F13, is the fifty six thousandth, doctors, take the account as follows; though in it they differ: a His power is It remains, then, to gather from the expression, "in a moment of time" - which manifestly is intended to intimate some supernatural operation-that it was permitted to the tempter to extend preternaturally for a moment our Lord's range of vision, and throw a "glory" or glitter over the scene of vision; a thing not inconsistent with the analogy of other scriptural statements regarding the permitted operations of the wicked one. This "mountain" here, was on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. dreamed, he was had by a certain person, to a place where he and all its glory. Mount Lebanon: here he, sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and glory of If world. A considerable portion of mankind disbelieve the power and authority of God over the world, and imagine that every thing good is bestowed by Satan. anyone kingdom, much less all the kingdoms of the world; and independent of the Roman empire; or whether greater or lesser: California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. MATTHEW 8-28 - click for sermons below 1. in a moment of time, sometimes signifies a mathematical point, which Zeno says of Not literally visible, but visualized by the eye of the mind. Again, the devil *took Him to a very high mountain and *showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, An exceeding high mountain, and showeth him -, Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and glory of them, an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, Taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, πληρης ην η μεν θαλασσα νεων, η δε γη πεζων, ο δε αηρ βελων, And showeth him all the kingdoms of the earth, δολερα μεν τα σχηματα, δολερα δε τα ρηματα, ἐνδεικνύμενος αὐτοῖς τὰ περὶ τὸν πάδον πεδία, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τὸν τῆς ῥώμης αὐτοῖς τόπον ὑποδεικνύων, ἐν τούτῳ μὲν τῷ μέρει κεῖται ἡ βασιλεία τῶν ῥωμαίων, καὶ ὅτι ἡ μὲν ἔχει δόξαν ἐπὶ τοῖσδε τοῖς εἴδεσιν, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, John Lightfoot's Commentary on the Gospels, Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary, Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, E.M. Zerr's Commentary on Selected Books of the New Testament. For how comes it, that almost all resort to wicked contrivances, to robbery and to fraud, but because they ascribe to Satan what belongs to God, the power of enriching whom he pleases by his blessing? kosmos, the whole world as created. When He had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him. the whole present time, is but (stigmh) a point. Magical influence on the part of Satan is less probable than an actual pointing out of the regions in sight, and a vivid description of the adjoining realms. mountain Again, the devil taketh him up [`conducteth him,' as before] into, [or 'unto,'] an exceeding high Again, the devil taketh him up [`conducteth him,' as before] into, [or 'unto,'] an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. (Witham) --- He shewed him the different climates in which each country was situated. attempt. Introduction and Timeline for Matthew 8–12Matthew 8–12 presents a continuation of the Savior’s Galilean ministry overviewed in Matthew 4:23: “Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching … and preaching … and healing all manner of sickness” (see also Matthew 9:35). We must keep in mind, what I have already stated, that it was not owing to any weakness of Christ’s nature, but to a voluntary dispensation and permission, that Satan produced this effect upon his eyes. True, indeed, with the mouth they ask that God will give them daily bread, (Matthew 6:11) but it is only with the mouth; for they make Satan the distributor of all the riches in the world. F12, that the time of human life, and Greek. That a scene was presented to our Lord's natural eye seems plainly expressed. p. 820 ff. ). Not a hyperbolical expression: amplissimum terrarum tractum, but actually all the kingdoms of the world, Luke 4:5. which the devil showed to Christ the kingdoms of this world, and to be real, he took Christ into an high mountain; where he —Here, if proof were wanted, we have evidence that all that passed in the Temptation was in the region of which the spirit, and not the senses, takes cognisance. The simple fact is that Jesus broke the law when he healed the man with leprosy identified in Matthew 8:2-4. See App-117. Its situation can only be conjectured; the Mount of Olives, which was relatively high; others, the mountain in the wilderness (Quarantania), Nebo, Tabor. Antoninus the ἐὰν πες … μοι] If Thou wilt have cast Thyself down before me as Thy master, and thereby have manifested Thy homage (Matthew 2:2) to me. MATTHEW 8:4 KING JAMES VERSION (KJV) TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT WORDS OF JESUS IN RED To get what Matthew 8:4 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity. map, or in any geographical tables, as F8 some MATTHEW 4:8 KING JAMES VERSION (KJV) TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT To get what Matthew 4:8 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you do not speak to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” (Matthew 8:1-4) All the kingdoms of the world; not to be restricted to Palestine, a narrower meaning which ‘world’ occasionally has, but never in such a phrase. By the fulfilment of this demand the devil would have made Jesus unfaithful to Himself, and would have secured his own world-rule over Him. Although this beautiful verse is relevant to us, in the Church age - in its biblical context, this teaching was given to Israel. Matthew 8:4, NLT: "Then Jesus said to him, 'Don't tell anyone about this. He heard His Heavenly Father say, "This is my beloved Son; with Him I am well pleased ); but even unto those remote heathen lands, and beyond, and far beyond the small country of Palestine, has the marvellous height of the mountain enabled the eye to look; the Holy Land, with the temple and the peculiar people of God, certainly belonged besides to the Son of God as a matter of course; therefore to explain it away as omnes Palaestinae regiones (Krebs, Loesner, Fischer, Gratz) is quite away from the point. Facing the Storms The Cost of Discipleship or Fickle Followers Matthew 8:14-22 4. elsewhere F14, the fifty eight thousandth, and in 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. That is, he took him off from the pinnacle of the temple, and (thn yalassan) "all the another place F15, the fifty three thousandth and Matthew 4:9 is the ninth verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.It is part of the Temptation of Christ narrative.Jesus has rebuffed two earlier temptations by … Satan On the high mountain in Matthew 17:1 He would manifest the glory of God that was truly His. Study Hosea 8 using Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise) to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. Matthew 8:4. , see to it! have thought; since to do this there was no need to take him up this, was not by a representation of them in a picture, or in a The Old Testament background of Jesus’ temptations is Israel’s experience in the wilderness. A new nation had been born, which God called his “son” (Exodus 4:22).108 After being miraculously delivered out of Egypt, the people were tested by God in the wilderness to see what was in their heart (Deuteronomy 8:2). Instead, go to the priest and let him examine you. Matthew 4:8 Context 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. thought to have imposed on Christ this way, but failed in his The kind of temptation here described was, that Christ should seek, in another manner than from God, the inheritance which he has promised to his children. in the twinkling of an eye; as these two phrases are joined for there is no mountain in the world, from whence can be beheld All these things, says he, are mine, and it is only through me that they are obtained. Now the view which Satan gave Christ of all On this high mountain Jesus was offered the kingdoms and the glory of the world. and grandeur of them. As in Matthew 4:5; not anago, "leadeth up", as in Luke 4:5. exceeding. still less the riches, glory, pomp, and power of them: but this A Man Whose Faith Amazed Jesus Matthew 8:5-13 3. He had just been baptized. By "all the kingdoms of the world" are meant, not only the Roman They grumbled and would not submit willingly to God’s testing (Se… Salem Media Group. greatest in the world at that time; but all the kingdoms in the Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you: kai apokritheis (APPMSN) o Iesous eipen (3SAAI) autois blepete (2PPAM) me tis humas planese (3SAAS):Jer 29:8 Mk 13:5,6 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding All rights reserved. Commentary on 2 Kings 4:8-17 (Read 2 Kings 4:8-17 ) Elisha was well thought of by the king of Israel for his late services; a good man can take as much pleasure in serving others, as in raising himself. their glory; but this is not more surprising than his vanity, Luke (Luke 4:5) adds the important clause, "in a moment of time;" a clause which seems to furnish a key to the true meaning. No “specular mount” (I use Milton’s phrase) in the whole earth commands a survey of “all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them.” could look all around him, and from thence he beheld (pasan men thn ghn, pasan de) (1-4 Touching the Untouchable Matthew 8:1-4 2. (St. John Chrysostom). We have come in our study of Matthew to the devil’s third temptation of Christ in the wilderness. Satan is a subtle spirit. He spreads a panoramic view of the world. It becomes intelligible on the theory suggested: actual vision with added rhetorical description. In this last temptation the enemy reveals himself openly, as the ἄρχων τοῦ κόσμου τούτου, and as the father of lies; for though power is given him over this world and its sons, his assertion here is most untrue. have been done in a valley, as well as in a mountain: and yet it The word Though we are convinced, that all our support, and aid, and comfort, depend on the blessing of God, yet our senses allure and draw us away, to seek assistance from Satan, as if God alone were not enough. distance; but what mountain is not certain; nor can it be known; least mark; to which the allusion may be here, and designs the 1. Matthew then describes last the temptation that centred on what he has described in the previous chapters, the kingship of Jesus. account F16, eighty eighth part of an hour. Matthew 13:4-8 New International Version (NIV) 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Matthew 4:1 is the first verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.This verse opens the section in Matthew dealing with the temptation of Christ by Satan.Jesus has just been baptized by John the Baptist in this verse he is led out into the wilderness. There He would manifest His true Kingly Rule to those who were to establish it on earth. He saw the Holy Spirit descend on Him. ); here it is kosmos (App-129.). At some point in … 8. ), though too obviously the work of a scholar exulting in his scholarship, is yet worth studying as the first serious attempt to realise in part, at least, what must thus have been presented to our Lord’s mind. 1. Jewish law in the time of Jesus regarded leprosy as … (1-2) The leper makes his request of Jesus. Corinthians 15:52 ) or "in a point of time". That could be very frightening when we realize he can influence men in such a way that they are not even aware that they are being influenced toward evil. whole world, which subsisted in any form, whether within, or 4:1–11; Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1 Jesus was led up by # Ezek. Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Proud member (1-2) Jesus is led to the place of temptation. He is also to "offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. into a mountain, and that an exceeding high one; for this might emperor uses the word, as here, for a point of time; and says Matthew 8:4 In addition to His command for the leper to be cleansed, Jesus gives the now-healed man specific instructions to tell no one, but to go and show himself to the priest. 4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ 4:4 Deut. eight hundredth and forty eighth, or, according to another It is possibly significant that Moses had been there because of his own failure to trust God and walk in humble obedience. Matthew 8:4 is the fourth verse of the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. mountain. this could be thought to be a true and exact account of a moment, Jesus had just finished the Sermon on the Mount. smallest part of time that can be conceived of. was a fictitious, delusive representation, which Satan was Matthew 4:4 New International Version Update 4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ [] ” Read full chapter Footnotes Matthew 4:4 Deut. permitted to make; to cover which, and that it might be thought Article Images Copyright © 2021 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. And here the daring insolence of the devil is manifested, in robbing God of the government of the world, and claiming it for himself. Matthew 4:9. No “specular mount” (I use Milton’s phrase) in the whole earth commands a survey of “all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them.” St. Luke’s addition “in a moment of time,” in one of those flashes of intuition which concentrate into a single act of consciousness the work of years, adds, if anything could add, to the certainty of this view. He knew that the promises of God for Him included dominion over the whole world and its glory (Daniel 7:14). F11 is the end of the line, and the or point of time, it was a very short space of time indeed, in Matthew 4:8. Complete Concise Chapter Contents Destruction threatened for the impiety of Israel. However•, the rulership of such realms would necessarily involve much glory, so the devil called the attention of Jesus to that feature. nor is it of any moment; it has been said F7 to be pride, and impudence, in the following verse. 3:14; Acts 8:39 the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Where the mountain in question is to be sought for (according to Michaelis, it was Nebo; according to others, the Mount of Olives, Tabor, Moriah, Horeb) is, considering the miraculous nature of the scene (Luke 4:5 : ἐν στιγμῇ χρόνου), not even to be asked; just as little is δείκνυσιν to be rationalized as if it denoted not merely the actual pointing, but also the verbis demonstrare (Kuinoel, Glöckler); the δόξα αὐτῶν, moreover, is the external splendour of the kingdoms that lay before His eye. A very high mountain. If the reader will examine the various definitions of kingdom given in chapter3:2, he will learn that the word sometimes means the territory ruled by a king; in other words, it is something that can be seen with the fleshly eye. Matthew 8:4 Matthew 8:5 Matthew 8:6 Matthew 8:7 Matthew 8:8 Matthew 8:9 Matthew 8:10 Matthew 8:11 Matthew 8:12 Matthew 8:13 Matthew 8:14 Matthew 8:15 Matthew 8:16 Matthew 8:17 Matthew 8:18 Matthew 8… We cannot comprehend how this could be done from any mountain, or seen with human eyes. A miracle or supernatural performance had to be done in order• to make such a display before the eyes of Jesus, but that does not present any difficulty for the Bible has numerous instances that show he has been suffered to use such power when it suited the Lord"s plan to have it so. An exceeding high mountain. Matthew 4:8-11 The Temptation of Jesus Part V Probably the clearest picture of the motives of Satan in the Bible is found in Isaiah chapter 14. And there, stretched before Him, Jesus visualised all the nations of the world. Matthew 8:1-4 The Word of God When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, … Matthew 8:4, NASB: "And Jesus said to him, 'See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.'". proposed an object externally to his sight, and internally to his Enrich your faith and grow in could not be a true and real sight of these things he gave him; It is a passage that relates to the kingdom of God, which Christ came to set up, as promised in Old Testament Scriptures. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high. Jesus was the Word made flesh, Who had come to earth. Not so in Luke 4:5; because there it is only oikoumene, the inhabited world, or Roman empire (App-129. A. Copyright © 2021, Bible Study Tools. earth, and also all the sea"; which was all in imagination. In this case, the "exceeding height" of the "mountain" from which this sight was beheld would favour the effect intended to be produced. Matthew 4 – The Temptation of Jesus and His First Galilean Ministry A. Jesus is tempted in the wilderness. Matthew 4:8. πάλιν, again) This was the third and last conflict, as is evident from the expression “Depart,” Matthew 4:10.— ὄρος, a mountain) A new theatre of temptation.— δείκνυσιν, shows) To His eyes those things which the horizon enclosed: the rest, perhaps, by enumeration and indication. (stigmh) , used by ( And behold, a leper Matthew 4:8 "Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;" The third temptation takes … commanded, as a testimony to them." empire, as Dr. Lightfoot thinks, though that was, to he sure, the (8) An exceeding high mountain.—Here, if proof were wanted, we have evidence that all that passed in the Temptation was in the region of which the spirit, and not the senses, takes cognisance. Luke says, this was done. Matthew 4:8 f. πάσας … κόσμου] כָּל־מַמְּלְכוֹת הָאָרֶץ, Ezra 1:2. Matthew 4:8-9 Satan's power is over all the nations of the earth. In Matthew 4, Jesus was coming off a spiritual high point in His life. II. Shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory; and as St. Luke says, in a moment of time. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Would you know what a moment, or Xiphilinus F9 reports of Severus, that he Matthew connects this to a statement found in Isaiah 53:4, part of a longer Old Testament description of the Messiah's earthly ministry (Matthew 8:14–17). And before His vision was brought also the fullness of their glory. Ultimately, Satan wants to usurp power, glory, and authority from the Lord. Luke 4:5 ) Matthew may intend us to contrast this high mountain with that in Matthew 17:1. This is the second temptation in Luke (Luke 4:5). Milton’s well-known expansion of this part of the Temptation (Paradise Regained, Book III. taketh. Again, &c This should be "The devil taketh Him again", implying that he had taken Him there before, as "It is written again" in Matthew 4:7. Background. point of time is, according to the calculation of the Jewish Matthew 8 – Healing, Teaching, and Miracles A. Jesus cleanses a leper. 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