Matthew 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, - Free Bible Online
Matthew 4:5 Then the devil took Him into the holy city; and he had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple,
         
  5.  Then  the devil taketh  him  up--rather,  "conducteth  Him."
  
         
  into  the  holy  city--so  called  (as  in
  Isa  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  golden  spikes
  [JOSEPHUS,  Antiquities,  5.5,6];  or  whether  it  refers  to  another  peak,
  on  Herod's  royal  portico,  overhanging  the  ravine  of  Kedron,  at  the
  valley  of  Hinnom--an  immense tower built  on  the  very  edge  of  this
  precipice,  from  the  top  of  which  dizzy  height
  JOSEPHUS  says  one  could
  not  look  to  the  bottom  [Antiquities,  15.11,5]--is  not  certain;  but
  the  latter  is  probably  meant.
JFB.
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				1 The temptation of Jesus
				13 Jesus dwells in Capernaum
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