<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4:9 </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">And he said to him: All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- The Lord knew full well that &quot;all things&quot;, the Kingdom of God when the kingdoms of this world have been subsumed beneath it, could only be given to Him to God. He was tempted to play God, to assume that by His own action He could grasp it for Himself without the cross. It is perhaps to this that Paul alludes when he writes that the Lord did not consider such equality with God a thing to be even grasped after (Phil. 2:6). Again we see how the essence of the wilderness temptations returned to the Lord on the cross. For Phil. 2:6 specifically speaks of the Lord in His time of dying.</span></p>