Luke 4:2
For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.
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In Context
3And the Evil One said to him, If you are the Son of God, give orders to this stone to become bread.
Cross References
Genesis 3:15And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
Exodus 34:28And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.
1 Samuel 17:16And the Philistine came near every morning and evening for forty days.
Esther 4:16Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.
Matthew 4:2And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.
Matthew Henry on Luke 4:2-14
The Temptation in the Wilderness. 1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. 3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. 4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. 5 And the devil, taking him up… Read the whole commentary →