Luke 4:5
Good News Translation
Then the Devil took him up and showed him in a second all the kingdoms of the world.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

Contemporary English Version
Then the devil led Jesus up to a high place and quickly showed him all the nations on earth.

New American Bible
Then he took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a single instant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

taking.

Mark 4:8,9 And some fell upon good ground; and brought forth fruit that grew up, and increased and yielded, one thirty, another sixty, and another a hundred. . . .

1 Corinthians 7:31 And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away.

Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.

1 John 2:15,16 Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. . . .

in.

Job 20:5 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

Psalm 73:19 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible. And we shall be changed.

2 Corinthians 4:17 For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

Context
The Temptation of Jesus
4And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God. 5And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6And he said to him: To thee will I give all this power and the glory of them. For to me they are delivered: and to whom I will, I give them.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:8
Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,

Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations: and then shall the consummation come.

Luke 4:4
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