Matthew 4:2
And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
In Context
1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Cross References
Exodus 24:18And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up onto the mount. And Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9When I was gone up onto the mount to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which LORD made with you, then I abode on the mount forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Deuteronomy 9:25So I fell down before LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because LORD had said he would destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
Mark 11:12And on the morrow when they came out from Bethany he was hungry.
John 4:6And Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied from the journey, thus was sitting on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:2-12
The Temptation of Christ. 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a… Read the whole commentary →