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Luke 4:8 KJV
Luke · chapter 4 · verse 8
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.Luke 4:8 · King James Version
Luke 4:8 in context
6And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
9And 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:
10For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
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Key words (Strong's)
- answeredapokrinomaito give an answer to a question proposed, to answer, to begin to speak, but always where…G611 →
- writtengraphōto write, with reference to the form of the letters, to delineate letters on a tablet…G1125 →
- worshipproskyneōto kiss the hand to one, in token of reverence, among the Orientals, esp. the Persians…G4352 →
- behindopisōback, behind, after, afterwards, of place things that are behind, of time afterG3694 →
- JesusiēsousJesus = " Jehovah is salvation" , Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind…G2424 →
- Satansatanasadversary , the name given to, the prince of evil spirits, the inveterate adversary of…G4567 →
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The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam, bespeak him to be the seed of the woman; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent's head, baffling and foiling the devil in all his temptations, who by one temptation had baffled and foiled our first parents.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13