Matthew 4:2
After fasting forty days and nights, he was hungry.
Free Bible 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 desert to be tempted by the devil.
Cross References
Exodus 24:18Moses went into the cloud as he climbed up on the mountain, and he stayed on the mountain for forty days and nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9This was when I climbed up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets that recorded the agreement the Lord made with you. I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, and I didn't eat or drink anything.
Deuteronomy 9:25So I lay down on the ground before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had threatened to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength the food gave him he was able to walk forty days and forty nights to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.
Mark 11:12The next day, as they left Bethany, Jesus was hungry.
John 4:6Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, who was tired from the journey, sat straight down beside the well. It was around noon.
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 →