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As hinted in the previous verse and confirmed at Luke 4:6 and John 12:31, this verse seems to show that the devil controlled the world before the coming of Jesus.It also is said to show how unimportant the physical world is; Satan is willing to abandon it to Jesus in exchange for Jesus not threatening him in the spiritual world.
This is in contrast to parts of the Bible that describe the devil as traveling about the earth, like Job 1:6–7 [231] and 1 Peter 5:8, [232] discussed above. On the other hand, 2 Peter 2:4 [233] speaks of sinning angels chained in hell. [234] At least according to Revelation 20:10, [87] the devil is thrown into the Lake of Fire and Sulfur.
The Devil depicted in The Temptation of Christ, by Ary Scheffer, 1854. The three Synoptic Gospels all describe the temptation of Christ by Satan in the desert (Matthew 4:1–11, Mark 1:12–13, and Luke 4:1–13). [77] Satan first shows Jesus a stone and tells him to turn it into bread. [77]
The temptation of Christ in the desert is shown in the following theatrical and television films: King of Kings (US 1961, Nicholas Ray), The Gospel According to Matthew (Italy 1964, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Greatest Story Ever Told (US 1965, George Stevens), Jesus (US 1979, Peter Sykes and John Krish), The Last Temptation of Christ ...
Matthew here uses the Greek word diabolos rather than the Hebrew satan used in Mark. Both words roughly translate as accuser, but it seems clear that both terms were understood as the name of a specific being at the time Matthew was writing. Matthew gives no details about the devil. The devil's status as a fallen angel(see Luke 10:18 ...
Satan and Beelzebub, the captains of Hell in Paradise Lost by John Milton. In Mark 3:22, the scribes accuse Jesus Christ of driving out demons by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons. The name also appears in the expanded version in Matthew 12:24,27 and Luke 11:15, 18–19, as well as in Matthew 10:25.
The destroying angel passes through Egypt. [1]In the Hebrew Bible, the destroying angel (Hebrew: מַלְאָך הַמַשְׁחִית, malʾāḵ hamašḥīṯ), also known as mashḥit (מַשְׁחִית mašḥīṯ, 'destroyer'; plural: מַשְׁחִיתִים, mašḥīṯīm, 'spoilers, ravagers'), is an entity sent out by God on several occasions to deal with numerous peoples.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: "The Devil who had begun to despair when he saw that Christ fasted forty days, now again began to hope when he saw that he was an hungred; and then the tempter came to him. If then you shall have fasted and after being tempted, say not, I have lost the fruit of my fast; for though it have not availed to hinder temptation, it ...