Matthew 4:5Bible in Basic English 1965Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, See the chapter |
Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.