Matthew 4:2
and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.
Darby Translation
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 carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil:
Cross References
Exodus 24:18And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9when I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, and I abode in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water,
Deuteronomy 9:25So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights, as I fell down; for Jehovah 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 were gone out of Bethany, he hungered.
John 4:6Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. 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 →