Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 4:5

5 Then the Devil taketh him up into the holy City, and setteth him on a Pinacle of the Temple.

By the Holy City, is meant Ierusalem, once an Holy City, Dan. 9.24. now tho a most impure, and filthy City, upon many Accounts, yet upon other Accounts still an Holy City; being the only City in the World, which had then in it the true Worship of the true God, and in which God, doubtless, who in Ahab's time had seven thousand in Israel, had many Holy People, how the Devil took Christ into the Holy City, is variously argued, and judged, the word used in the Greek, are such as would incline us to think, he was not carried by Force, but followed the Tempter willingly, and set upon a place on the top of the Temple, higher then the other parts of it: The end of his being set there, the next Verse tells us.