thou · personal pronoun — 2nd person nominative singular
therefore
οὖνoun
G3767
(adverbially) certainly · conjunction
worship
προσκυνήσῃςproskunēsēs
G4352
to fawn or crouch to · verb — aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular
me
μοῦmoû
G3450
of me
all
πᾶσα.pasa
G3956
all · adjective — nominative singular feminine
be
ἔσομαιésomai
G2071
will be
thine
σοῦsoû
G4675
of thee
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Psalms 72:11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
Luke 8:28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God m…
Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and go…
Revelation 22:8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed…
Isaiah 45:14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and the…
Isaiah 46:6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they wo…
Matthew 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had…
Luke 17:16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Luke 4:1-13
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. Thus, in the beginning of the war, he made reprisals upon him, and conquered the conqueror.
In this story of Christ's temptation, observe,
I. How he was prepared and fitted for it. He that designed him the trial furnished him accordingly; for though we know not what exercises may be before us, nor what encounters we may be reserved for, Christ did, and was provided accordingly; and God…
If thou - wilt worship me - This temptation is the last in order, as related by Matthew; and it is not reasonable to suppose that any other succeeded to it. Luke has here told the particulars, but not in the order in which they took place. See every circumstance of this temptation considered and explained in the notes on Mat 4:1-11 (note).
John Gill on Luke 4:7
If thou therefore wilt worship me,.... Or "before me"; that is, fall down before him, and give him divine worship and homage. A wide difference there is between a good angel and a fallen angel; a good angel will not suffer himself to be worshipped by men, but directs to the worship of God only, Revelation 19:10 but a fallen angel not only seeks to be worshipped by men, but by the Son of God himself, even by him whom all the holy angels worship, Hebrews 1:6 This was what Satan at first aspired after, and by which he fell: he affected deity, and sought to have divine worship given him; and in this sin he still persisted, and grew worse and worse, more daring and insolent, desiring worship of h…
Luke 4:5-13
Matthew 4:5-11
Mark 1:13
Luke 4:5-13
5. Then the devil taketh [313] him into the holy city, and placeth him on the pinnacle [314] of the temple, 6. And saith to him, If thou art the Son of God, throw thyself down: for it is written, He will command his angels concerning thee, and they will carry thee in their hands, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7. Jesus said to him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 8. Again, the devil taketh him to a very high mountain, and pointeth out to him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9. And saith to him, All these things I will give thee, if, falling down, thou shalt adore me. 10…
The Church Fathers
"All these things I will give you, if you fall down and worship me." By the same means by which the ancient enemy overthrew the first man through avarice—for he tempted him through the advancement of avarice when he said: Knowing good and evil—by those same means he was overcome when he tempted the second man.
The devil therefore says to the Lord: You have come for this, to fight against me and to take from my dominion those whom I now hold subject. I do not wish you to contend, I do not wish you to strive, lest you have any trouble in the struggle. There is one thing that I beg: "falling down, adore me", and receive all the kingdom that I hold. But our Lord and Savior does indeed wish to reign and to have all the nations subject to himself, that they may serve justice, truth, and the other virtues; yet he wishes to reign as justice itself, so that he may reign without sin, so that he may do nothing unseemly, and he does not wish to be crowned without labor by being subject to the devil, nor so to reign over the rest that he himself should be ruled by the devil. Whence he speaks to him: "it is written: You shall adore the Lord your God, and him alone shall you serve". All these, he says, I wish for this reason to be subject to me, that they may "adore the Lord God and serve him alone"; this is the desire of my kingdom. But you wish sin to begin from me—sin which I have come here to dissolve, and which I desire to take away from the rest as well. Know and understand that I abide in what I have said, that the Lord God alone should be adored, and that I will bring all these under my power and subject them to my kingdom. To whom we too rejoice to be subject, and let us beseech God that he may put to death "the sin reigning in" our "body" and that Christ Jesus alone may reign in us: to whom is glory and dominion unto the ages of ages. Amen.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Ambition · 49:11-13; — 49:11-13;
Demons · Worship of — Worship of
Falsehood · In his false pretensions to Jesus — In his false pretensions to Jesus
Jesus, The Christ · 1:12,13; — 1:12,13;
Temptation · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
they are mine to give: The New Testament elsewhere describes Satan’s limited rule over the present world order (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11; Eph 2:2; 1 Jn 5:19).
