LUKE—NOTE ON Luke 4:5 And the devil took him up introduces another temptation but does not imply that the temptations occurred in this order (compare Matthew 4:1). all this authority and their glory... has been delivered to me. Though in some sense Satan is the “ruler of this world” (John 12:31; see 1 John 5:19), his claim here should not be accepted as fully true, for all authority belongs to God (see Romans 13:1; Psalms 24:1). This is a temptation to break the first commandment (Exodus 20:3).

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